Given the lowly status most law firms PRs enjoy within their firms, The Diary was delighted to hear of one spin doctor who throws his weight around with impunity.

So ruthless is the man in question that he was recently likened by one partner at the firm to serial-limper Herr Otto Flick, the cruel Gestapo officer whose razor-sharp banter with unter-ling Von Smallhausen so enlivened 80s comedy favourite ‘Allo ‘Allo!