Other lives: Financial manager and director at a number of Britain’s best known companies
June 2026
London cafe in legal battle with restaurant chain over ‘Eat Drink Work’ slogan
Subsidiary of FTSE 250 company says Coffee Studio’s ‘Eat Drink Work’ phrase too similar to trademark
January 2026
‘Process failed’ says BBC after Apprentice contestant’s offensive tweets emerge
Production company asked for full review after broadcaster ‘completely unaware’ of Levi Hodgetts-Hague’s comments
February 2025
TV tonight
TV tonight: James May’s new series takes him on an eye-opening voyage
The Apprentice at 20: how Trump and Alan Sugar’s reality TV baby became little more than ritual humiliation
February 2024
The hard truth is that Britain’s entrepreneurs simply don’t innovate
Phillip Inman
Billions in tax relief is showered on UK small businesses in the belief that they are transforming the economy. They aren’t
March 2023
Gary Lineker was singled out from a long list of BBC stars who express political views
From Alan Sugar and Karren Brady to Richard Osman and Nadiya Hussain, there is nothing new about TV presenters writing about politics
January 2023
TV tonight
TV tonight: Grayson Perry’s controversial new exhibition about Englishness
Colourful characters feature as Grayson Perry’s Full English begins. Plus: Lord Sugar and Marie Antoinette (not together). Here’s what to watch this evening
Brief letters
The long and short of being a 6ft teen
Brief letters: Trials of being tall | Meeting Miriam Margolyes | Jumpsuits on planes | Brief letter boost | Alan Sugar does irony
How we made
Alan Sugar on making The Apprentice: ‘If I was a candidate, I’d win every time’
‘I’m actually polite and sensitive in the boardroom. But that doesn’t make good telly. So the monkeys at the TV company pick the moments where I’m banging on the table’
December 2022
What Jacob Rees-Mogg, Alan Sugar and the Daily Mail get wrong about home working
André Spicer
While the right rails against ‘lazy layabouts’ and ‘woke workplaces’, workers know productivity and happiness can improve, says professor of organisational behaviour André Spicer
January 2022
Head of Bet365 gambling firm Denise Coates tops list of UK’s biggest taxpayers
Reality checked
Covid? Never heard of it! Step into a carefree past: watch The Apprentice
Yomi Adegoke
December 2020
Alan Sugar's sister dies from Covid two weeks after brother
Shirley Regal, 88, had been ill for a while, the host of The Apprentice says
October 2020
I won, I lost, I got outed in the national press – Apprentice survivors reveal all
How does it feel to be backstabbed? Do they still get shouted at in the street? Are the jobs fake? And does Lord Sugar need to use a booster seat? Past winners and losers relive their traumas and triumphs
September 2020
Lord Sugar tweets about flight to Sydney, angering Australians unable to enter country
UK billionaire praises Emirates for flight as thousands remain stranded by policy to ease pressure on hotel quarantine
May 2020
Lord Sugar tweet broke UK advertising rules, says watchdog
Johnson's back, and this time his message is: all aboard for the sunlit downlands
Marina Hyde
December 2019
You're hired! Why Attenborough should narrate The Apprentice
This weekend, a subtitle error fused Seven Worlds, One Planet with the bumbling business contest – and it was brilliant. Here’s why the nature titan should join the show for good
July 2019
Books blog
Hurrah for 'flyting' – but we can do better than Piers Morgan and Alan Sugar
The ‘frenemies’ have taken to aiming insulting limericks at each other – but they can’t beat 15th-century poets William Dunbar and Walter Kennedy
