📺 Watched season 21 of of Dragon’s Den.

BBC ‘Business Thursday’ hit our household again this year with the Thursday back-to-back showing of both this den and the (aforementioned) Apprentice.

Again it’s a program where little changes over the years. They shook things up a little with the Dragons with a couple of ‘special guest’ celebrity-style judges popping in to throw some money around. And there was an episode where they had to overlay a health warning having failed to call out that there was little medical evidence that ‘ear seeds’ cured myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME).

This was possibly less of a faux pas than the Apprentice of course, one of whose candidates mysteriously vanished from the after-show gatherings having been found to be spouting ‘vile and sexist’ stuff about feminism, Judaism and Hinduism. He’d previously set up the “University of Masculinity” to find Moroccan wives with the ideals he prefers for divorced Muslim men,

But overall, the den provided oddly reassuring old familiar stuff from an earlier era. Sure, we could lecture sternly about the ever-increasing inappropriate valorisation of business, money and personal status above the social good. But at least that’s an old, pre perma-crisis problem.