Columnist, the Sunday Telegraph, The Standard and GQ

Job: editor, the Spectator; columnist, the Sunday Telegraph
Age: 41
Industry: publishing
Circulation: 77,146 (July to December 2008)
2008 ranking: 42

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Job: editor, the Spectator; columnist, Sunday Telegraph
Age: 40
Industry: publishing
Circulation: 75,633 (July to December 2007)
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Bloggers are transforming the way opposition politics works - soon the web may create and put forward its own election candidates. Matthew d'Ancona reports

The Times gala party and screening for the new Robert Redford film Lions for Lambs got Monkey thinking. It is now time to compile a list of those Times rumours in full: 1. Times editor Robert Thomson will move to New York to become an executive at the Wall Street Journal. 2. Deputy editor Ben Preston will become editor of the Times. 3. Business editor James Harding will become editor of the Times. 4. Times US editor Gerard Baker will become editor of the Times. 5. Times US editor Gerard Baker will join the Wall Street Journal. 6. Spectator editor Matthew d'Ancona will become editor of the Times. 7. Sunday Times editor John Witherow will become an executive at News International, possibly replacing Les Hinton. 8. Patience Wheatcroft will return to the Times and become editor. 9. Patience Wheatcroft will return to the Times and not become editor, but a columnist.