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Roll reversal

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukw8gUtHVXY&fs=1&hl=en_GB] This week on The Apprentice: 13 candidates, 16 bread rolls and one hell of a mess. “This is turning flour into serious dough.” Someone really needs to get Lord Sugar a new script writer. Britain is awash with out-of-work… Continue Reading →

Life's a beach

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnKHMvotEc0&fs=1&hl=en_GB] This week on The Apprentice: Stella takes one for the team; Karren takes offence; and Raleigh takes off. The Apprentice is nothing if not even-handed. Week One saw the boys squabbling over their rancid sausages like a pack of… Continue Reading →

Bangers and cash

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_Z4WccPKkU&fs=1&hl=en_GB] The latest series of The Apprentice kicked off with a sausage-themed task that was clearly designed to generate a barrage of double entendres. From Joanna’s (quite sensible) “We need to up the meat content” to the predictable “Have you… Continue Reading →

The Egos Have Landed

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVcuU_zgR3c&fs=1&hl=en_GB] “I walk along the street of sorrow. The boulevard of broken dreams. ” sings Tony Bennett in the BBC’s frequently aired trailer for The Apprentice. Yes, the suits, the egos and “Suralan” are back to boost the ratings and… Continue Reading →

Desiccated housewives

In The Stepford Wives (1975), desperate housewife Joanna Eberhart (Katharine Ross) discovers that there is a fate worse than being married to boring lawyer Walter (Peter Masterson) — a man with all the sexual magnetism of a rotting corpse. The… Continue Reading →

Burn after reading: embracing the e-book

Another month; another sleek and seductive device arrives in shops. I can’t even get past Amazon’s home page without being smacked in the face by the breathtaking product shots of their “All-New Kindle”, which is modestly priced at £109 for… Continue Reading →

Appetite for destruction

In a week of “extraordinary”, “unprecedented” and (according to some over-excited pundits) “surreal” political events in Britain, I went to Sloane Square, Chelsea, to watch a play about Sloane Rangers. Laura Wade’s provocative comedy, Posh, which runs at London’s Royal… Continue Reading →

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