MOVERS AND SHAKERS
Our magazine revealing the capital's most influential people has fascinated Londoners eager to discover who is really calling the shots. Our weekly column by Gideon Spanier will help you check up on who's in and who's out.
- Monday 29 September
Sarah Brown causes a stir with an unexpected turn at the Labour Party Conference, and celebrity kingmaker Simon Cowell persuades Britney Spears to perform on his hit show
- Monday 22 September
Jay Hunt, the new boss of BBC1, is making her presence felt at Auntie, while Brit artist Damien Hirst defies the credit crunch to raise more than £100m at an auction of his work
- Monday 15 September
Arsenal striker Theo Walcott bags a hatrick for England against Croatia and Daria Zhukova is christened the 'It Girl' of the art world
- Monday 8 September
Triple jumper Phillips Idowu returns from Beijing with an Olympic silver medal, and Keira Knightley's star shows no sign of waning
- Monday 1 September
Phylidda Lloyd wins over the critics with her own adaptation of Mamma Mia! but fashion followers Trinny and Susannah look likely to lose their primetime TV slot
- Monday 18 August
Peaches Geldof causes a stir with an impromptu wedding in Las Vegas, but times are tough for Bank of England Governor Mervyn King
- Monday 11 August
Jeremy Clarkson breaks the mould by negotiating a share of the profits from Top Gear, and Kevin Pietersen makes a big impression as the new captain of the England cricket team
- Monday 4 August
Naguib Kheraj becomes chief executive of the Queen's stockbrokers Cazenove, while Kit Malthouse flexes his muscles as Deputy Mayor
- Monday 28 July
Mr Justice Eady makes a name for himself with a landmark ruling on the Max Mosley v News of the World case, as does London-born director Christopher Nolan with his blockbusting Batman Begins sequel The Dark Knight
- Monday 21 July
Restaurateur Jamal Hirani's star is on the rise, but it isn't plain sailing for BBC Trust Chairman Sir Michael Lyons
- Monday 14 July
Former investment banker Giles Clarke is making waves as chairman of the ECB, but times are tough for ITV executive chairman Michael Grade as he watches the share price slide
- Monday 7 July
The boss of Europe's biggest video games retailer defies the credit crunch, but deputy mayor of London Ray Lewis falls on his sword amid allegations of sleaze at City Hall
- Monday 23 June
Glamorous literary agent Caroline Michel wins the power struggle for control of PFD, while up-and-coming minister Andy Burnham blots his copybook with a foot-in-mouth moment
- Monday 16 June
Hot-tempered Brazilian Luiz Felipe Scolari became the third Chelsea manager in the space of nine months, but former Tory frontbencher David Davis's one-man campaign for civil liberties may backfire in spectacular fashion
- Monday 9 June
Enfants terribles of the London art scene Jake and Dino Chapman are added to the list while model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is making a name for herself as the next Kate Moss
- Monday 2 June
James Purnell - aka 'the sideburned one' - is positioning himself as a future Labour leader, while motorsport wunderkind Lewis Hamilton wins F1's most glamorous race
- Tuesday 6 May
Boris Johnson is in and Ken Livingstone is out of our list of those running London. Elsewhere, ASOS boss Nick Robertson and Five chief exec Dawn Airey are making moves
- Monday 28 April
Gavin and Stacey creator James Corden is the hottest new talent in television, and Jane Shepherdson is dubbed 'the most influential woman on the high street'.
- Monday 21 April
Thomson Reuters chief executive Tom Glocer is moving back to his native USA after a seven-year spell in Blighty, while Leona Lewis continues her transformation into bona fide pop star.
- Monday 14 April
Ian Livingston becomes BT's retail chief as Dutchman Ben Verwaayen steps down from the telecoms giant and Tessa Jowell finds herself under pressure juggling her ministerial role and Labour's mayoral election campaign.
- Monday 7 April
Stepping out of the shadow of her famous father, Notting Hill-based Elizabeth Murdoch is becoming a big player in US television.
- Tuesday 25 March
She may have been soaked in court, but brokering Sir Paul McCartney's divorce from Heather Mills has done wonders for hotshot barrister Fiona Shackleton's profile.
- Monday 17 March
Katie Bostock is tipped as the frontrunner to succeed Sir Stuart Rose as chief of M&S while Lord Darzi is in danger of being made a scapegoat for the public's reluctance to engage with the consultation on his controversial NHS reforms.
- Monday 10 March
Crowned the best dressed woman in Britain by Tatler, Agyness Deyn is fast consigning the Kate Moss generation of models to history; Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg, meanwhile, has made an uncertain start to his reign.
- Monday 3 March
Prince Harry returns from his secret tour of Afghanistan a hero, while Sir Nigel Rudd, chairman of BAA, finds himself under increasing pressure for the shambolic state of Heathrow.
- Monday 25 February
Ron Sandler's £90,000-a-month salary makes him Britain's highest paid civil servant, but it hasn't been a good week for Blake Chandlee, the boss who has seen Facebook lose five per cent of its audience in the last month.
- Monday 18 February
The Grammy award-winning Mark Ronson brings his tour to Britain and revered English trip-hop collective Massive Attack take the reins at the Southbank's influential Meltdown Festival.
- Monday 11 February
Is Daniel Day-Lewis the world's greatest living actor? With a Bafta in the bag and, in all likelihood, an Oscar on the horizon for his thunderous performance in There Will Be Blood, who are we to argue?
- Monday 4 February
Growing in influence is Apple's design guru Jonathan Ive, the man who shaped the ipod and the iphone; Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing also makes her presence felt at the grand old age of 88.
- Monday 28 January
Peter Hain comes a cropper over deputy leadership campaign donations while 21-year-old Gemma Arterton lands the role of Agent Fields to Daniel Craig's Bond in the new installment of the 007 franchise.
- Monday 21 January
Sir Mike Tomlinson has £80m to spend as the new London Schools Commissioner, while Josie Rourke, the embattled artistic director of the Bush Theatre, fights to save the much-loved venue.
- Monday 14 January
PR man Stephen Carter becomes one of the most powerful figures in Government, while financier Guy Hands' purchase of EMI lurches from one disaster to the next.
- Monday 7 January
Radiohead's Thom Yorke enhances his reputation as a pioneer in the music industry, but the Lib Dem's Brian Paddick is trailing badly in the race to be Mayor.
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- Monday 17th December
'Iron Sergeant' Fabio Capello takes over as boss of the England football team, but even the friends of Tory Mayoral candidate Boris Johnson admit he has to raise his game.
- Monday 10th December
Jay Hunt, the new controller at BBC1, is on the rise, Shami Chakrabarti's influence is growing and Carol Stone's tireless networking wins her recognition.
- Monday 3rd December
Acting Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable brings down the house, while both Ray Winstone and Patrick Stewart win awards for their acting.
- Monday 26th November
Alex Allan becomes the Government's top intelligence adviser, but Sports Direct founder Mike Ashley sees his personal stake in the business shrink by £74m as a result of England's failure to qualify for Euro 2008.
- Monday 19th November
Rotch group co-chairman Robert Tchenguiz loses a tidy £200m with an abortive takeover bid for Sainsbury's, but Sir Win Bischoff sees his stock rise as he is parachuted in to take charge of troubled banking giant, Citibank.
- Monday 12th November
Jimmy Leach - the man who transformed the No 10 website during the Blair years - has defected to join Freud Communications, but John Kingman's political influence grows as he becomes Second Permanent Secretary at HM Treasury.
- Monday 5th November
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger joins our list as his young team go top of the Premiership, but the chairman of the Competitions Commission misses an opportunity to break up the big supermarkets' monopoly.
- Monday 29th October
Baroness Hammwee departs the list after once again stifling debate at the London Assembly, while green transport expert Lynn Sloman grabs attention with her call for a rethink of the Thames Gateway Bridge.
- Monday 22nd October
Executive Vice-president of BP Vivienne Cox sees her powerbase shrink, but shareholder activist Eric Knight makes headlines with a ferocious attack on banking giant HSBC.
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