Is this latest bunch of “Apprentice” candidates the nastiest we have had?

Where’s the energy of Saira Khan, star of the first series? Or the sales skills of Ruth “the Badger” in the second? Where’s the personality of the “Nutter” Jo Cameron, or the bare-faced cheek of Tre Azam?

It is now four weeks into the latest series, and all I see is cowardice.

While there were arguments and character clashes in the past, at least the candidates realised you had to pull together and work as a team to avoid losing and stay out of the boardroom.

But this lot just don’t seem to have cottoned on yet. The laundry exercise in the second week was the only time we have seen it, when the boys pulled together under the leadership of Raef Bjayou.

This week, we even had the girls’ project leader risk her team’s success by putting the weakest technical person in the role of handling a computer.

For what? A personal vendetta? Just what does Helene Speight have against Lucinda Ledgerwood?

The only gelling going on, it seems, is on the boys’ hair. I wonder if their vanity has anything to do with their vacuous performance.

This is a bunch after all who don’t know how to spell “accent” and think the Wallace Collection is a clothes shop.

All that’s left to watch is Jurassic Jenny and her prehistoric business skills.

Bring back Katie Hopkins. At least you could sneakily admire her.

“At a business level you have one speed setting and that’s slow, slow, slow. Someone put the wrong speed dial in when they created you sweetie.”

Ah, nostalgia.