Has it really come to this? Gordon Brown is tapping up Sir Alan Sugar as "enterprise czar", and will nominate him for a seat in the House of Lords. Sir Alan is an old friend of Brown's, though he rather bizarrely refers to the PM as "this fellow" in an interview on the BBC website!
Maybe their friendship has led Brown to overlook the fact that Sir Alan's entrepreneurial successes are fast receding into the mists of time. Most of his money now is made from property dealing. Given some of the revelations during the expenses scandal, you wouldn't think that was a skill set that was particularly lacking in the Brown team, although I guess the departure of Hazel Blears has altered the balance a bit.
At least most people have heard of him, which is more than you can say about most of the Cabinet. Even so, Sir Alan is really an entrepreneur only in the eyes of the same kind of people who think Stephen Fry is an intellectual.
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