Alan Sugar

I was watching the BBC news this morning before heading out to work. There were doing a piece on the rising knife crime among young people. They had Alan Sugar (entrepreneur and star of the tv hit The Apprentice.) on to give his opinion on the subject. Before he started he said how annoyed he got when people who didn't know anything about a subject harped on about it. He then proceeded to harp on about a subject he new nothing about. And then plug his show that is on the telly later tonight.

Interviewing someone, ideally a celebrity, who knows nothing about a subject seems a particularly popular way to do the news at the moment. Perhaps Alan was making that very point with his opening statement. And then again, perhaps not...