W. B. Yeats, A Life, I: The Apprentice Mage 1865-1914: Apprentice Mage 1865-1914 v. 1
Celebrity - Female First (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Victoria Beckham could be adding TV star to her resume after it has come to our attention that she is in talks to appear on the US version of Celebrity Apprentice. Brilliant! Quite what the Spice Girl can bring to Sir Alan Sugar’s boardroom is beyond me, but apparently the former Spice Girl has been bitten by the TV bug after appearances on ...
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Alan Sugar reportedly brands the decision to postpone Junior Apprentice as a "joke".
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
#10 The iPod Will Flop By Fake Steve Jobs From Newsweek The iPod will be dead, finished, gone, kaput.' — Sir Alan Sugar, February 2005 We thought it was hilarious when Sir Alan Sugar predicted that by the end of 2005 the iPod would be “dead, finished, gone, kaput.” I remember saying, “Wow, that’s so weird, because I was just thinking the exact same thing about Sir Alan...
In Entertainment (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Fans of the hit TV show the Apprentice, will have to wait until the start of the summer next year for the new series, because of Sir Alan Sugar’s role as Gordon Brown’s enterprise Star. The Apprentice, which usually starts in March, has been moved to June to avoid any clash with the general election. Since [...]
The Sun (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
FANS will have to wait until next June due to Alan Sugar's role as Govt enterprise tsar
Denverstrope (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Iain Martin, on his increasingly brilliant new blog for the Wall Street Journal Europe (which, incidentally, is run by another British stalwart of journalism, former Sunday Telegraph editor Patience Wheatcroft), has noted that Lord (nee Suralan) Sugar's showcase for managerial bullying, The Apprentice, has been axed by the Beeb until after the General Election. We will therefore see even less of this...
Dan's Media Digest (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
The sixth series of BBC1's The Apprentice has been pushed back to summer 2010, from its traditional spring start. The reason for the scheduling change is that its normal slot would likely coincide with a General Election if one is called next year, and the BBC cannot be perceived as endorsing any particular party through Lord Alan Sugar's association with the government as enterprise tsar. Interestingly,...
The Plashing Vole (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
I don't watch The Apprentice. I can't stand Tories or yuppies, and despise its brand of capitalism. However, Alan Sugar seems to have soaked into the fabric of society like some kind of ineradicable pollution. His announcement today: Women are their own worst enemies calls for the simple rejoinder 'Not while you're around Alan'. Remind me again why everyone from the BBC to the government think he's...
Baby Chums (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Lord Alan Sugar was criticized by the Trades Union Congress, (TUC) today after suggesting that women are more likely than men to discriminate against female employees. Alan Sugar, the TV star of The Apprentice and successful businessman also hinted he would be reluctant to give a full-time job to a pregnant woman, further, suggesting, in a [...] Source: Baby Chums
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
LONDON (Reuters) - Tycoon Alan Sugar, famous for his putdown "you're fired" on hit TV show "The Apprentice," said he was considering firing himself from his government job after a backlash at comments he made about struggling small businesses.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Stonily quiet at the back of a big, blank office on a weird, wind-whipped Essex trading estate, Sir Alan Sugar — ’skewze me, Lord Sugar — looks small, angry and alone. The businessman’s face, normally the rough beige of a Farley’s rusk, is oddly white and red, even though, as it hungrily patrols the two televisions, the computer and the iPhone near his desk, it seems to...
The Lone Voice (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Well the knives are out for Lord Amstrad: First up the Federation of Small Businesses think he is a bit of a cock over his remarks about small companies unable to get money from the banks. The Apprentice star dismissed bosses of struggling small businesses as ‘moaners’ who ‘live in Disney World’, during his address to a conference in Manchester. Lord Sugar, who was appointed...
Oliver's Blog (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
The Apprentice star, who was at a Q&A session for small to medium businesses in Manchester in his role as the Government's Enterprise Champion, claimed that 85 per cent of small firms who applied for bank loans were not worth lending to. With a pickled old cynic like Sugar running his jaundiced eye over initial submissions, it could be the first step on a road to another British business failure....
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Apprentice star Sir Alan Sugar has dismissed struggling business bosses as "moaners" who "live in Disneyworld".
Home (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Not always right on business (courtesy of Amstrad) Alan Sugar got it wrong when he declared that an “entrepreneur” was impossible to define or create. So says a businessman who built three multi-million pound companies from scratch. Way off the mark David Abingdon, CEO of the Alchemy Network , a B2B franchise , and former head of the Quantum Organisation and Insurety PLC, said that Sir...
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