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Who's in and who's out
Gideon Spanier, Evening Standard27 Oct 2008
Our magazine The 1,000: London's Influential People, published this month, highlighted the powerbrokers and agenda-setters of 2008. However, influence shifts quickly. Gideon Spanier looks at who's in and who's out.
ON THE UP
FOOD
JAMIE OLIVER, 33
CHEF, AUTHOR, TV PRESENTER
The campaigning chef has done it again - a new £2 million "golden handcuffs" deal with Channel 4, and he is top of the book charts with his latest TV tie-in, Ministry Of Food. A decade after he first shot to prominence, Oliver retains his passion for healthy eating and is expanding his Fifteen empire of restaurants around the globe.
UNDER THE COSH
POLITICS
GEORGE OSBORNE, 37
SHADOW CHANCELLOR
Looks set to survive the Oleg Deripaska row but he is widely seen as having made a bad misjudgment by consorting so closely with the oligarch in the first place. Some Tories see him as high-handed and those old Bullingdon Club photos from Oxford don't do much for his everyman image.
MAKING MOVES
POLITICS
LORD MANDELSON, 55
BUSINESS SECRETARY
The return of the serpentine Peter Mandelson to the Cabinet was always going to set Westminster buzzing but few predicted he would have the Tory front bench on the rack so fast. When he has not been stirring the pot in the Oleg Deripaska row, Mandelson is involved in the Lloyds TSB/HBOS merger and wants to ease back on flexi-time for workers. Arguably his influence could soon rival the Chancellor's.
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
TV & RADIO
DAWN AIREY, 48
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF TV CHANNEL FIVE
The woman who championed the three Fs - football, films and ****ing - when TV channel Five launched more than a decade ago starts back at the helm today. Airey, who has had senior roles at BSkyB and ITV in the interim, rejoins at a tricky time. Advertising revenues are down across the industry and Five made no profit in the first half of this year.
TROUBLED TIMES
SPORT
DANIEL LEVY, 49
CHAIRMAN, TOTTENHAM FC
A year ago he signed Juande Ramos as manager but the new season has proved disastrous the worst start for Spurs in living memory. Ramos was sacked at the weekend and fans are growing impatient and, with the prospect of relegation from the Premiership, Tottenham shares have plunged. Levy's future may depend on Spurs' majority owner Joe Lewis.
Reader views (2)
I agree with Tiffy, Jamie needs to learn from Ross and Brand lose the cursing. Otherwise he's always interesting and doing good work.
- Mary H, Norwich, UK, 06/11/2008 22:59
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Jamie Oliver is watched and admired by a lot of youngsters,why has he resorted to using bad language in his "ministry of food programme",he has children of his own and surely would not like them to repeat that sort of language.
Tiffy
- Tiffy Kabir, Ross-on-Wye, U.K., 03/11/2008 13:04
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