Poor old Tom Bradby. He got the interview that everyone wants to watch – the first sit-down with Prince Harry about his new book, which aired tonight on ITV – and his fellow journalists all hate him for being a frightful suck-up. We must all be jealous. Mr S, certainly, would kill for Bradby levels of access.
Kelvin MacKenzie summed up the bitter mood among the Fourth Estate:
Mr S bows to nobody in his reverence for ‘dirty Mac’ – a tabloid genius, in many ways. But that seems harsh. Bradby tried to challenge Harry at times. He suggested that Harry might be stuck in the past, that he might have a simplistic understanding of the media, and that he might be guilty of infringing his family’s privacy while complaining about the attacks on his own.
But the Duke of Sussex’s doublethink is disorienting at the best of times.
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