Editorial team

Veronica Wadley – Editor

Veronica Wadley is a Londoner who was born in Chelsea and educated at Francis Holland and Benenden, where she was a contemporary of the Princess Royal.

She worked on Vogue and then in South Africa before joining The Mail on Sunday in the 1980s.

Before taking on the role of Editor at the Evening Standard in 2002 Veronica was the Deputy Editor (Features) at the Daily Mail. She is the first woman to edit the Evening Standard. She is married to the author and investigative journalist Tom Bower. They have two children.

 

Fay Maschler

Fay Maschler is one of the UK's leading restaurant critics. After nearly 30 years of dining on Evening Standard expenses she is the expert when it comes to advice as to where to eat out in London. Her weekly reviews (every Tuesday) are the gourmet's bible, as is her publication, The London Restaurant Guide. She has been said to be responsible for "changing the face of restaurant criticism and raising our appreciation of eating out". Vogue concurs: "Week after week for several decades, the Grande Dame of British restaurant critics has appraised with unerring judgement the newest arrivals on London's flourishing restaurant scene. I have rarely disagreed with her opinion."

Brian Sewell

Brian has worked as an art historian all his life since graduatingfrom the Courtauld Institute in 1957. Since 1984 he has been the art critic of the Evening Standard. British Press Awards include: Critic of the Year 1988, Arts Journalist of the Year 1994, Hawthornden Prize for Art Criticism 1995 and the Foreign Press Award (Arts) 2000.

Will Self

Will Self was born and grew up in London. After pursuing a career as a cartoonist he found immediate success with his first publication, the collection "The Quantity Theory of Insanity" in 1991, which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. His other books include short story collections, novellas and the novels "My Idea of Fun", "Great Apes" and "How the Dead Live" which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Best Novel Award 2000. His latest novel "Dorian" is published by Penguin in Autumn 2002. In addition to fiction, Will Self has written for every national broadsheet and many magazines. His collections of journalism include "Junk Mail" and "Feeding Frenzy". He currently has a column in the Evening Standard, is a team captain on BBC2's Shooting Stars, and regularly broadcasts on BBC Radio 4

Anthony Hilton

Anthony has worked in newspapers for 35 years, most of the time as a financial journalist. He also spent three years in New York working for The Times and Sunday Times covering finance but working also as a mainstream reporter covering everything from the Iranian Hostage crisis, to the guerrilla wars in Guatemala and El Salvador, to the shooting of John Lennon, to the British challenge for the Americas Cup yacht races. In 1989 he moved into market led management for six years until the yearning to get out of management and back into journalism became too much and he returned to his earlier position as City Editor of the London Evening Standard. Anthony is currently a business commentator within the City Pages of the Evening Standard.

Norman Lebrecht

Norman Lebrecht is a prolific writer on music and cultural affairs, whose weekly column has been called 'required reading for anyone interested in classical music.' His books have been translated into 10 languages and topped the amazon.com best-seller music charts. They include: The Complete Companion to 20th Century Music, The Maestro Myth, When The Music Stops and Mahler Remembered. In 2003, at the age of 54, Norman won the Whitbread First Novel Award for The Song of Names.

Victor Lewis Smith

Victor Lewis-Smith is the television critic for the Evening Standard and a columnist for the Mirror. An ex-BBC radio producer, influenced by Jack Jackson and Kenny Everett (and an undeniable influence on Chris Morris), Lewis Smith has created, with writing partner Paul Sparks, some of the most astonishing radio and television ever broadcast. First reaching most people's ears through his contributions to Radio 4's Loose Ends, Lewis Smith has subsequently brought us two series for Radio 1, Channel 4's ill-fated Club X ('Buygones' and 'Up Your Arts'), some magical inserts in BBC2's TV Hell theme night and the Great Bore Of The Year Awards. His first TV series Inside Victor Lewis Smith followed and more recent works include Ads Infinitum (BBC2) and TV Offal (C4).