Review of the week: The Apprentice

Scott was somebody else’s problem.

The independence referendum did nothing for the ego of Scotland’s entrepreneurs, with business leaders questioning the current standard of innovation.

So the pressure was on Scott McCulloch to deliver on The Apprentice and show “Westminster” (now a colloquialism to describe anybody who hasn’t been brought up on a diet of neeps and tatties) that the land of Alexander Graham Bell and John Logie Baird is still transmitting new ideas loud and clear.

By the end of Wednesday’s episode I was wishing John hadn’t bothered to refine his grainy, distorted image.

Having been volunteered by Robert (a man who screamed “Westminster” right down to his lack of socks) as Project Manager for the wearable technology task, Scott went by the maxim that “generally speaking it’s usually somebody else’s fault,” which might have been taken on as a slogan for either the Yes or No campaigns had he uttered it a month earlier.

Keeping to the Logie Baird theme “somebody else” in Scott’s team came up with the idea of putting a camera in a jumper at chest level.

This may have sold well to convicted voyeurs but it was being pitched to fashion gurus, not a local community prison, and went so bad that “somebody else” (in this case, Dan) was forced to admit “it was not to be worn in a public place.”

Having lost out to a jacket with solar panels for shoulder pads, Scott was looking round for somebody else to blame but found Lord Sugar’s finger pointed at him.