Not often but just occasionally, I thank my lucky stars that I am behind life’s curve. I barely understood what non-fungible tokens (NFTs) were when they first emerged, let alone dreamt of investing in them. After watching the bizarre disaster spelt out in The Stormtrooper Scandal (BBC2), I’m thankful. This was an epic tale of greed, naivety, betrayal and digital fool’s gold. It was the emperor’s new clothes soaked in snake oil.
What was perhaps unusual about this documentary was that the art curator Ben Moore, the architect of the titular “scandal”, agreed to be interviewed — at length. This felt a little like participating in your own takedown, contributing to a film in which, if he watched it, he’d have heard himself being