Rich Monday Paper, London Edition 124 Remember Who You Are Moriam Adekunle: Nursing, Leadership and Becoming the Strategy Canada and the EU Forge a Historic Alliance, Opening the Path to the Union's First Associate Member London Calling: The Week Starting 2nd November 2026 Pitchfork Takes Over London From 2nd to 8th November, With The Avalanches Headlining the Roundhouse The V&A's Schiaparelli Exhibition Closes on Sunday 8th November, Your Last Chance to See the UK's First Show on the Designer Bonfire Night Falls on Thursday 5th November, and London's Biggest Firework Displays Run Through the Weekend London Remembers at the Royal Albert Hall on 7th November, the Cenotaph on 8th November and in Silence on Armistice Day Diwali Falls on Sunday 8th November, and After Storms Cancelled Trafalgar Square, London Celebrates at Home Punjabi Princess Sophia Duleep Singh Fought for the Vote and Nursed Indian Soldiers: See Her Story at Kensington Palace Before 8th November EFG London Jazz Festival Opens on 13th November With Ten Days Marking 100 Years of Miles Davis and John Coltrane The Lord Mayor's Show Returns to the Thames on 14th November as Bronek Masojada Becomes the City's 698th Lord Mayor Winter Daylight Lifts Your Mood and Steadies Your Sleep: 8 Ways to Get More of It UK Sunlight Cannot Make Enough Vitamin D From October to March: Who Should Take It and How Much Christmas Stress Starts Building in November: 8 Ways to Reach January Rested Reading Lowers Stress and Deepens Empathy: 8 Ways to Use Books as Medicine This Winter Loneliness Raises Your Risk of Heart Disease and Stroke: 8 Ways to Build Friendships in Midlife Gratitude Improves Your Sleep and Mood When You Practise It the Right Way: 7 Methods That Work You Lose Muscle Every Decade After 30, and Lifting Weights After 50 Wins It Back: 8 Steps to Start Menopause Symptoms Push One in Ten Women Out of Work: 8 Steps to Get the Support You Need and Stay Phones in the Bedroom Cost Your Children Sleep: 8 Rules for Screen-Free Family Evenings Children Who Cook With You Eat More Vegetables and Grow in Confidence: 8 Ways to Start Tonight A Daily Winter Walk Lowers Stress and Blood Sugar: 8 Ways to Keep Going Until Spring Reading Poetry Aloud Slows Your Breathing and Calms Your Heart: 7 Ways to Start Fibre and Plant Variety Do More for Your Gut Than Most Supplements: What Is Proven and What Is Marketing Cold Water Swimming Lifts Your Mood but Cold Shock Can Kill: 8 Rules for Swimming Safely in British Winter Water Hedgehogs Are Heading for Britain's Banknotes, So Check Your Bonfire Before 5th November Wet Windows Every Morning? Seven Habits That Stop Condensation Turning Into Mould Green Leads the 2027 Paint Colours: How to Choose a Shade That Works in Winter Light The Pre-Christmas Kitchen Reset: Clean It Once, in the Right Order Nine Ways to Find Storage Space You Already Have Make Your Hallway Work in Winter: Wet Coats, Muddy Boots and Lost Keys Sorted The Winter Wardrobe Swap: Pack Summer Away Properly and Keep Moths Out of Your Wool Christmas Flowers Start Now: When to Plant Amaryllis and Paperwhites November Is the Best Month to Plant Tulips, as Cold Soil Keeps Tulip Fire Away Fallen Leaves Make Free Soil Conditioner: How to Turn Them Into Leaf Mould Plant Garlic and Broad Beans Now for the First Harvest of Next Summer Energy Bills Are Forecast to Rise Again in January: 10 Fixes That Keep Your Home Warmer Now Keep Your Houseplants Alive Until Spring: Water Less and Move Them Closer to the Light Bare-Root Season Has Opened, and Planting Roses, Fruit Trees and Hedges Now Costs Less Wellbeing Horoscope for 2nd to 8th November 2026: Mercury and Venus Retrogrades Make This a Week for Review Eight Luxury Escapes to Take Before Christmas, From Vienna's Advent Markets to the Arctic Icehotel Three meteor showers peak in November before the first of three back-to-back supermoons A Five-Course Anti-Inflammatory Dinner Inspired by the Victorian Age There Is No Place for Us Won the 2026 Pulitzer for Reporting on Homeless Families Who Work Full Time
About This Issue Rich Monday Paper London Edition 124, for the week starting 2nd November 2026, celebrates the people who open the way for others. Our cover star, Moriam Adekunle, planned to become a doctor and found her calling in nursing instead. Almost three decades later she is Director of Nursing for Quality Governance in the NHS and the creator of the RISEUP® Strategic Leadership Framework. In her Editor’s Letter, Dame Neslyn Watson-Druée DBE invites you to remember who you are, choose yourself and say someone else’s name in the room, through a London week of Bonfire Night, Remembrance Sunday and Diwali.
In This Issue 01 Remember Who You Are by Dame Neslyn Watson-Druée, DBE 02 Moriam Adekunle: Nursing, Leadership and Becoming the Strategy by Dame Neslyn Watson-Druée, DBE 03 Canada and the EU Forge a Historic Alliance, Opening the Path to the Union's First Associate Member by Dr Marina Nani 04 London Calling: The Week Starting 2nd November 2026 by Dr Marina Nani 05 Pitchfork Takes Over London From 2nd to 8th November, With The Avalanches Headlining the Roundhouse by Dr Marina Nani 06 The V&A's Schiaparelli Exhibition Closes on Sunday 8th November, Your Last Chance to See the UK's First Show on the Designer by Dr Marina Nani 07 Bonfire Night Falls on Thursday 5th November, and London's Biggest Firework Displays Run Through the Weekend by Dr Marina Nani 08 London Remembers at the Royal Albert Hall on 7th November, the Cenotaph on 8th November and in Silence on Armistice Day by Dr Marina Nani 09 Diwali Falls on Sunday 8th November, and After Storms Cancelled Trafalgar Square, London Celebrates at Home by Dr Marina Nani 10 Punjabi Princess Sophia Duleep Singh Fought for the Vote and Nursed Indian Soldiers: See Her Story at Kensington Palace Before 8th November by Dr Marina Nani 11 EFG London Jazz Festival Opens on 13th November With Ten Days Marking 100 Years of Miles Davis and John Coltrane by Dr Marina Nani 12 The Lord Mayor's Show Returns to the Thames on 14th November as Bronek Masojada Becomes the City's 698th Lord Mayor by Dr Marina Nani 13 Winter Daylight Lifts Your Mood and Steadies Your Sleep: 8 Ways to Get More of It by Dr Marina Nani 14 UK Sunlight Cannot Make Enough Vitamin D From October to March: Who Should Take It and How Much by Dr Marina Nani 15 Christmas Stress Starts Building in November: 8 Ways to Reach January Rested by Dr Marina Nani 16 Reading Lowers Stress and Deepens Empathy: 8 Ways to Use Books as Medicine This Winter by Dr Marina Nani 17 Loneliness Raises Your Risk of Heart Disease and Stroke: 8 Ways to Build Friendships in Midlife by Dr Marina Nani 18 Gratitude Improves Your Sleep and Mood When You Practise It the Right Way: 7 Methods That Work by Dr Marina Nani 19 You Lose Muscle Every Decade After 30, and Lifting Weights After 50 Wins It Back: 8 Steps to Start by Dr Marina Nani 20 Menopause Symptoms Push One in Ten Women Out of Work: 8 Steps to Get the Support You Need and Stay by Dr Marina Nani 21 Phones in the Bedroom Cost Your Children Sleep: 8 Rules for Screen-Free Family Evenings by Dr Marina Nani 22 Children Who Cook With You Eat More Vegetables and Grow in Confidence: 8 Ways to Start Tonight by Dr Marina Nani 23 A Daily Winter Walk Lowers Stress and Blood Sugar: 8 Ways to Keep Going Until Spring by Dr Marina Nani 24 Reading Poetry Aloud Slows Your Breathing and Calms Your Heart: 7 Ways to Start by Dr Marina Nani 25 Fibre and Plant Variety Do More for Your Gut Than Most Supplements: What Is Proven and What Is Marketing by Dr Marina Nani 26 Cold Water Swimming Lifts Your Mood but Cold Shock Can Kill: 8 Rules for Swimming Safely in British Winter Water by Dr Marina Nani 27 Hedgehogs Are Heading for Britain's Banknotes, So Check Your Bonfire Before 5th November by Dr Marina Nani 28 Wet Windows Every Morning? Seven Habits That Stop Condensation Turning Into Mould by Dr Marina Nani 29 Green Leads the 2027 Paint Colours: How to Choose a Shade That Works in Winter Light by Dr Marina Nani 30 The Pre-Christmas Kitchen Reset: Clean It Once, in the Right Order by Dr Marina Nani 31 Nine Ways to Find Storage Space You Already Have by Dr Marina Nani 32 Make Your Hallway Work in Winter: Wet Coats, Muddy Boots and Lost Keys Sorted by Dr Marina Nani 33 The Winter Wardrobe Swap: Pack Summer Away Properly and Keep Moths Out of Your Wool by Dr Marina Nani 34 Christmas Flowers Start Now: When to Plant Amaryllis and Paperwhites by Dr Marina Nani 35 November Is the Best Month to Plant Tulips, as Cold Soil Keeps Tulip Fire Away by Dr Marina Nani 36 Fallen Leaves Make Free Soil Conditioner: How to Turn Them Into Leaf Mould by Dr Marina Nani 37 Plant Garlic and Broad Beans Now for the First Harvest of Next Summer by Dr Marina Nani 38 Energy Bills Are Forecast to Rise Again in January: 10 Fixes That Keep Your Home Warmer Now by Dr Marina Nani 39 Keep Your Houseplants Alive Until Spring: Water Less and Move Them Closer to the Light by Dr Marina Nani 40 Bare-Root Season Has Opened, and Planting Roses, Fruit Trees and Hedges Now Costs Less by Dr Marina Nani 41 Wellbeing Horoscope for 2nd to 8th November 2026: Mercury and Venus Retrogrades Make This a Week for Review 42 Eight Luxury Escapes to Take Before Christmas, From Vienna's Advent Markets to the Arctic Icehotel by Dr Marina Nani 43 Three meteor showers peak in November before the first of three back-to-back supermoons by Dr Marina Nani 44 A Five-Course Anti-Inflammatory Dinner Inspired by the Victorian Age by Dr Marina Nani 45 There Is No Place for Us Won the 2026 Pulitzer for Reporting on Homeless Families Who Work Full Time by Dr Marina Nani Join free to read this issue Enter your email to unlock Rich Monday Paper, London Edition 124 and get access to all free content on Rich Monday Paper.
