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No Minister - why tycoons like Lord Sugar just can't cut it in politics

05.11.09

This week in New York, Michael Bloomberg won a third term as mayor. Here, the man who most Londoners would want to challenge Boris Johnson has put his foot in it... more

Sir Alan Sugar facing backlash over rant at small firm 'moaners'

04.11.09

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'... more

Battle over elected peers as Sir Alan Sugar enters Lords

20.07.09

Sir Alan Sugar takes his seat in the Lords as a fresh row erupted over whether peers should be elected... more

Reality TV shows are Aesop's fables for modern times

03.07.09

Among the great and good, the wise and wonderful, there is a tendency to condemn reality TV... more

Sir Alan Sugar faces sexism hearing

29.06.09

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Yasmina tastes success on The Apprentice after final chocolate task

08.06.09

Restaurant owner Yasmina Siadatan won a job with Sir Alan Sugar following a shock final of The Apprentice... more

Women on top

05.06.09

As Sir Alan Sugar faces an all-female Apprentice final between ice-cool Kate Walsh and fiery Yasmina Siadatan, has the tide turned?... more

You're fired, Gordon... or is Sir Alan a new No10 apprentice?

04.06.09

Sir Alan Sugar, the star of TV's The Apprentice, produced a swirl of rumours around Westminster today as he visited 10 Downing Street... more

Sir Alan Sugar has found a new generation of B'Stards

01.05.09

Ben Clarke, the squat, brace-wearing yuppie parody of The Apprentice, is, at 22, too young to remember the film Wall Street, which was released the year he was born. But the spirit of Gordon Gekko lives on in him, as it does in almost all of this season's vile bodies... more

We’re still suckers for your get-rich-quick con, Sir Alan

16.04.09

We take The Apprentice as a personal insult in the Groskop family. Especially my dad, a salesman all his life... more

The girls are a washout in Sir Alan Sugar's soap opera of pure, naked ambition

26.03.09

There has never before, in the annals of television, been a programme so exquisitely tailored to our need for an exposé of the emperor's new clothes... more

Sorry, Sir Alan – you’re yesterday’s man

18.03.09

EVEN the publicity picture of the contestants with their "me, me, me" poses, pinstripe suits and stilettos, against a backdrop of Canary Wharf, says it all. The Apprentice, the fifth series of which was launched yesterday but screens next week, is suddenly looking very dated indeed. ... more

Meet the Apprentices MkV

17.03.09

A Tanzanian beauty queen, an award-winning restaurateur and an ex-professional footballer are among the new batch of aspiring tycoons hoping to land a job with Sir Alan Sugar... more

Trump casinos must revamp debt in days

02.01.09

Leisure: Property tycoon Donald Trump's casino empire has been given until 21 January to negotiate a debt restructuring after it missed an interest payment... more

Advance to Mayfair for a hotel feast

19.11.08

Avista is streets ahead of its peers, using top-quality ingredients that speak for themselves.... more

Channel Five scores a zero as ads slump

26.08.08

Even the cult soap Neighbours cannot save broadcaster Channel Five from slumping ad revenues... more

Apprentice star Claire Young: 'My killer high heels wrecked my spine - and left me in agony'

25.08.08

Apprentice finalist Claire Young strutted to television fame wearing her trademark four-inch high-heeled shoes - but the footware left her unable to move and frozen in agony.... more

Oh, Christine, you've set my Olympic torch aflame

21.08.08

For some of us the Olympics are always painful. There are fans - and fairweather fans. And then you have those who require a meteorological explosion of Biblical proportions before they develop any kind of interest at all... more

My fight to save my fertility (and how I survived Sir Alan)

12.08.08

Radio shows, TV presenting - the offers have rolled in since Lucinda Ledgerwood was fired from The Apprentice. But alternative medicine is where her passion lies ... more

Lucinda Ledgerwood fights back

12.08.08

Radio shows, TV presenting – the offers have rolled in since Lucinda Ledgerwood was fired from The Apprentice. But alternative medicine is where her passion lies.... more

Revealed: Apprentice runner-up Claire's fling with Zara Phillips's boyfriend

15.06.08

She might be disappointed to have lost out at the eleventh hour in The Apprentice, but it is not the first time star Claire Young has been second best.... more

Apprentice winner Lee McQueen's heartbreak over parents' divorce

14.06.08

Apprentice winner Lee McQueen looks a typical cheeky 11-year-old as he messes around with his cousins at a family get-together. But within a few years his happy home life was torn apart when his parents split.... more

Alan's theatre of cruelty is office life as we live it

13.06.08

The Apprentice has been a runaway success, says Liz Hoggard, because our relationships and lives are so shaped by the workplace... more

As Claire becomes the bookies' favourite, are any of Sir Alan's finalists really worth £100,000?

10.06.08

Today sees the conclusion of The Apprentice. Here, we get under the skin of the final four as Sir Alan is about to decide who is his Apprentice.... more

Apprentice losers may end up real winners as finalists prepare for boardroom showdown

09.06.08

After 11 weeks of gruelling competition, the finalists on this year's The Apprentice line up for a final time before one is crowned champion... more

William’s friend the specs tycoon only has eyes for Apprentice star Michelle

08.06.08

She is the former supermarket checkout girl who won The Apprentice and went to work for Sir Alan Sugar.... more

Alan Sugar DOES have a booster seat and we've got the picture to prove it

22.05.08

With a fortune of more than Ł800million, he walks tall in the business world. But in The Apprentice, Sir Alan Sugar is apparently given help to take the high ground over contestants. ... more

He really should have fired the 'bloody lot'

09.05.08

If The Apprentice is to keep its place as the top reality show, it must sharpen up its own recruitment policy and give us contestants worthy of the Boss... more

You're fixed! Apprentice show caught in second fixing row

05.04.08

The Apprentice has been caught in a second fixing row as it was revealed hopeful contestant Michael Sophocles worked for a firm with close ties to the show. The 25-year-old telesales worker was employed by the publisher of the TV hit's official magazine, it has been revealed... more