It’s a new year, but some things never change. As 2022 began, the BBC was rolling out yet another series of The Apprentice, this one introduced by a rather weird trailer painting its host as a rebooted robot with a dodgy trigger finger. I know the pandemic has changed us all in some way, but still…
Anyway, you could easily be forgiven for thinking that by now, with the many past winners of the show – this latest run is series 16 – Lord Sugar would be retired from such endeavours and making the most of his past investments. Alas, no. Here we are again. The outfits, the suitcases, the boasts, the blames and counter blames when tasks inevitably go awry. Don’t get me wrong. Across the years, a fair few candidates have demonstrated some strong entrepreneurial acumen – it hasn’t all been coloured-in drawings on a business plan and brown toothbrushes resembling you-know-what… (for the latter, see earlier this series).
