HE may only be a character in the Beano, but Walter the Softy packs a punch and last week delivered it flush on the stiff upper lip of arch-Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg. Walter, Dennis the Menace's arch nemesis, hit Rees-Mogg with a cease and desist letter, claiming the Somerset Tory MP's distinctive style was ripping him off. He listed all the alleged infringements, which included copying his hair parting, round glasses, spotty ties and vintage apparel and enjoyment of classical music – and also in his snootiness and his efforts to stop others having fun. And, crucially, that the toff has been born 16 years after Walter's first appearance, so it must be so.
More than 40 years after first appearing as Wonder Woman on TV, Lynda Carter finally got her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the 2,632nd. Carter is now 66, she tours with her band – which is why she missed a cameo role in the recent big screen version of Wonder Woman. She made her musical debut as a five-year-old in a talent show and her professional one when she was 14 in Tempe, Arizona, then got into acting after winning the Miss World USA title. But she's no airhead. She's a UN Ambassador for the Empowerment of Women and Girls, a gay icon and a noted supporter of LGBT rights.
He turned a slumbering plastics company into the world's biggest advertising group over more than three decades, but now Sir Martin Sorrell has been hit with an allegation of misconduct. He was confronted with it before the Easter holiday, following a meeting of independent board members, who appointed an independent law firm to investigate. This was immediately followed by a report in the Wall Street Journal, which did not elaborate on the charges, only that they relate to an alleged improper use of company funds. Sorrell categorically denies any misconduct.
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