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 23 February
Entertainment mogul Simon Fuller inks a new deal with ITV, and Home Secretary Jacqui Smith lands herself in hot water over expenses
Monday 16 February
Katie Grand is going places as she launches her new Condé Nast title, Love, while Luiz Felipe Scolari falls out of favour following his sacking by Chelsea
Monday 9 February
BSkyB chairman James Murdoch is making moves while BBC1 controller Jay Hunt is under pressure
Monday 2 February
Sir Paul Stephenson makes our list after being promoted to the job of Metropolitan Police Commissioner while Radio 2 controller Bob Shennan is up and coming.
Monday 26 January
Jonathan Ross comes under scrutiny following the Russell Brand affair while Zac Goldsmith is making moves with his fight against the expansion of Heathrow.
Monday 19 January
Ex-UBS banker Shriti Vadera lands herself in hot water while Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle is new on the list.
Monday 12 January
New Doctor Who Matt Smith is given a great platform for success but Kevin Pietersen is in trouble after being dismissed as England captain.
Monday 22 December
Nicola Horlick is counting the cost of the Bernard Madoff scandal while Alisher Usmanov is making waves in the Arsenal boardroom
Monday 15 December
BBC iPlayer supremo Anthony Rose prepares to launch a revamped version of the online TV service, while Kate Winslet racks up another Golden Globe nomination for The Reader
Monday 8 December
Kate Bostock, seen as a likely successor to M&S boss Sir Stuart Rose, hopes to defy the credit crunch, while billionaire Bernie Ecclestone feels the heat as Honda pull out of Formula One
Monday 1 December
Deposed by Boris Johnson, Sir Ian Blair is dropped from our list and designer Louise Goldin is making moves after winning the Emerging Talent prize at the British Fashion Awards
Monday 17 November
Arcadia's Sir Philip Green snaps up a 28 per cent stake in Moss Bros, while Sainsbury's chief executive Justin King saw the company defy the credit crunch by posting soaring profits
Monday 10 November
Westfield shopping supremo Michael Gutman oversees the opening of Europe's largest mall, but Alex Salmond's influence shrinks after an unexpected by-election defeat for the SNP
Monday 27 October
Campaigning chef Jamie Oliver is the flavour of the month with a 'golden handcuffs' deal from Channel 4 and a new bestseller on the bookshelves
Monday 20 October
Hammersmith-born singer Estelle picks up two awards at the Mobos, while Atlantic Books founder and MD Toby Mundy enjoys a Booker Prize triumph
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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