The real story of Scoop is how the death of deference culture will reshape Britain

AS OTHERS have noted Scoop, the Netflix film about the Newsnight interview with the Duke of York that ended his career as a working royal in 2019, wasn't a scoop.

- Tanya Gold

It exposed no new information. The story that the duke stayed in touch with the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein after he was convicted of sex offences belonged to the photo-journalist Jae Donnelly, who appears briefly in Scoop, taking the famous photograph of Epstein and Prince Andrew in Central Park.

Emily Maitlis, who conducted the interview, elicited no meaningful apology to Virginia Giuffre, the woman who claimed she was trafficked to Andrew by Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, and with whom he settled out of court for £12 million the late Queen is thought to have contributed without admitting wrongdoing.

So, it wasn't a scoop though this oddly self-congratulatory film journalists do their job, and adequately, not brilliantly- thinks it is.