You’re hired — so long as you swear like they do on telly, and you don’t smoke

Many of my friends were hooked on the latest series of The Apprentice

Many of my friends were hooked on the latest series of The Apprentice — even our usually infallible television critic James Delingpole, who told me that he loved it ‘because it’s so awful’. Perhaps I should make more effort to master postmodern irony, but I’m afraid I found Sir Alan Sugar and his contestants just too irritating to watch for more than five minutes at a time.