Missing the point entirely (though maybe not, since I’m writing about it) is the marketing department at Marks & Spencer, which has just appointed Gillian Anderson “chief compliments officer”. Her job description? “To spread joy and positivity, and to compliment M&S customers and employees.” What this piece of corporate whimsy means is suggested by a cursed mini-ad in which the actor, radiating powerful if professional “Will this do?” energy, compliments a woman, or rather her M&S outfit (“I love that dress”), as she strides past her. I guess she has had sillier roles, but I absolutely hate it; it’s the opposite of Barbara from Stroud, somehow.