There was only one surprising thing about the Martin Bashir Panorama scandal of 2020: which is that anyone was surprised at all. Because we’d heard it all before.
Twenty-four years before. The meat of the story — that Bashir forged bank statements which helped secure his now infamous TV interview with Princess Diana in 1995 — had been splashed all over the front page of the Mail on Sunday in April 1996. But back then, no one seemed to care.
