Why Beatty escaped a Dogger Bank court martial

Why was Beatty not court-martialed after Dogger Bank?

The Admiralty had already celebrated the action and its commanders, so punishing Beatty after fuller reports arrived risked damaging wartime morale.

A viewer asks why Beatty was not court-martialed for failing to destroy more of Hipper's force. The first public and senior reports presented the action as a success. By the time fuller accounts revealed the target-distribution and signaling failures, the celebrated officers had already been used to support wartime morale. Prosecuting them would have forced the Admiralty to contradict its own victory narrative. Information timing and propaganda can constrain institutional accountability during war.