Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
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 Telegraph (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The way Lord Sugar sees it? Jim White wonders.
The Streeb-Greebling Diaries (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
I find myself once again incredulous at the British honours system . How did Alan Sugar manage to become a Lord? Surely a man who believes that the best economic strategy in a recession is denial is not a particularly good champion of UK business. His computer empire was a household name in the late 1980s, but now seems to be pretty much nowhere. Reading his Wikipedia entry all becomes clear. "He...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Sir Alan Sugar dismissed bosses of struggling small businesses as "moaners" who "live in Disney World", it has been reported.
Evening Standard - News (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Gordon Brown's business tsar Lord Sugar faces calls to be fired after reportedly branding some small firms as 'moaners' who live in 'Disney World'
Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
SIR Alan Sugar dismissed bosses of struggling small businesses as "moaners" who "live in Disney World", it has been reported.
Londonist (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
It's 66/1 at William Hill , apparently. The 'comeback king' of British politics certainly has the force of personality that the role demands. But would voters trust him? And might the most ambitious man in politics consider the role beneath him? We'll leave it for the political blogs to decide. One man who does think it's a possibility is Guardian blogger Dave Hill. He's put a tenner on Mandy's coronation...
The Church Mouse (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
They both feature in the list of greatest leaders , as voted for by teenagers. A survey of over 1,000 teenagers by The Youth of Today, has put Mother Theresa and Simon Cowell in the list of 'all time greatest leaders'. Its a pretty eclectic list, which includes Martin Luther King, Moses, John Terry, Joanna Lumley, Bill Gates and Sir Alan Sugar. Interesting, eh. Amongst other findings 67% thought that...
football is fixed (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
The House Negro's first act on assuming presidency of the HyperImperium was to authorise an illegal bombing raid into Northern Pakistan. This followed on swiftly from his precarious silence on the Israeli slaughter (in the usual 100:1 ratio) of 1300 hundred Gazans, utilising high-tech US weaponry especially delivered for the genocide-to-be. And, prior to being the latest branded pseudo-leader of the...
Jack Yan: the Persuader Blog (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
I’m having a hard time envisaging the New Zealand version of The Apprentice . I rather like the UK version of the show ( above ). Sir Alan Sugar gives a very different style to Donald Trump , and I hope we Kiwis will give our own take. The issue I have with the American edition is that the tasks are somewhere between seventh form and first-year uni in terms of complexity, yet egomaniacs...
Nik Nak’s Old Peculiar Blog (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
My word … I was mildly impressed, last night … ! No, I was. I’ve got to admit, in between watching the occasional bout of this year’s Grand Prix snooker tournament, I caught “Micro Men”. And I ended up impressed with a docu-drama that seemed to capture the excitement of the times. “ Micro Men ” charts the early years of the British computer boom, and...
Chart Blog (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
If I were Sir Alan Sugar, but still had to take time out of my busy business day to concoct a review for an amazing BBC music blog - not sure which is the more unlikely scenario, to be honest, but let's press on - this would be a perfect moment for me to give a short lecture in the realities of business. Essentially - don't worry, I won't try and do the voice - what you need to do is identify a gap...
The Polemical Report (Free subscription) | 26/09/2009
Tim Ireland has asked bloggers to produce articles based on the conduct of those wishing to smear him for his investigative work in the Glen Jenvey case. With that in mind, here is Justin McKeating’s article in full as it says what I want to say and says it well (except for that bit about knowing Tim Ireland, I don’t know him). Tim Ireland: no good deed goes unpunished Remember this story...
AL64 (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
Yesterday I was determined to be a part of Live From Studio Five. My plan was simply to flood them with emails on every subject they discussed in the show. The first topic of the day was 'Is Brucie too old to present Strictly'. I cunningly disguised myself as a 72 year old man, as I thought this may increase my chances of getting a mention. This is the email I sent: Dear Wrighty, Melinda and Sir Alan...
The Lone Voice (Free subscription) | 23/09/2009
Snigger. Ha ha ha ha. Enterprise Czar! WWWWHHHHH HA HA HA HA HA Still Sir Alan has not had an easy time of it of late, first there was that cock up with his apprenticeship vacancies that cost £3million an recruited just 600 apprentices - despite or because of an advertising campaign fronted by Sir Alan Sugar - at a cost of £4,677 per apprentice: Link Not a good start as Enterprise Czar....
Videos