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Bloody hell, the vitriol for Ollie Madden on here. Actually "straight white bloke gets top UK creative funding job" is quite a rarity these days. I've known Ollie since he was just "John Madden's son who lucked into a junior job by his connections," and all I'd say is a) he was always a very nice boy, b) he was always very good at parlaying that niceness into seemingly effortless rise from exec job to exec job - though I doubt very much it was effortless, given the companies he worked for. His taste and track record is pretty mainstream, so it will be interesting to see if he brings any hitherto unsuspected edge to his new job. But he's always been eager to please, so I'm sure he will work very hard to prove all the doubters on here wrong.