"Are These The Real Powers In The Land?"

In an article ranking the UK's most powerful and influential people, Cherry Norton reports:

They are the men and women who hold sway over Britain. The first league table to rank the country's most powerful and influential people has put Bill Gates abobe John Prescott, the deputy prime minister....

Only one figure from a professional artistic background approaches the top 30. That is Sir Paul McCartney, the former Beatle, whose music is still seen as having a significant influence on modern bands such as Oasis.

Like other members of the royal family and the landed gentry such as the Duke of Westminster, the fourth-richest man in the country, the Queen's power and influence is judged to have faded, falling behind that of celebrities such as Oasis's Noel and Liam Gallagher...who figure at number 84.

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