Nathan Gill bribery case shows real risks of foreign interference - Spotlight on Corruption Today’s guilty plea in the trial of Nathan Gill, Reform UK’s former leader in Wales, demonstrates the real risks of foreign interference and corruption in our

🎙️Our executive director @suehawley.bsky.social will be talking to @stephensackur.bsky.social on @listentotimesradio.bsky.social at 1.30pm today about the case of Nathan Gill, Reform UK's former leader in Wales, who pleaded guilty to #bribery charges last month.
For more on the case, see our article👇

@stephensackur.bsky.social Thank you for tackling the subject of Reform, Nathan Gill and Russian interference in our democracy with Christopher Steele. The first time I've heard this subject talked about on any broadcast media.

Thank you Dave! Hope your podcast is going well… 🙏

SOME NEWS 🎤
I’m absolutely delighted to be joining @listentotimesradio.bsky.social as a presenter of ‘The Times at One’. You want an unstuffy, authoritative take on the news? With the occasional bit of hard talk? Tune in….

Thank you, much appreciated!

Lovely words, thanks Greg! 🙏

Thanks Rob 🙏

Many thanks Angelina 🙏

Already missing HARDtalk and @stephensackur.bsky.social, one of the best prepared and well read journalists ever. No sucking up to the big and powerful. Especially in these daring times we'd need more of this clarity, not less. Hope to see some kind of continuation on a new platform. #iconsLiveOn

What a loss for the BBC; there goes my favorite program. Thanks a ton, Stephen, for everything you and your team have done over the years. Mind-boggling that HARDtalk was cancelled – and at such a turbulent time – but I hope your 'new adventures' include it somehow continuing in a different form.

Your final Hardtalk episode was an evocative reminder of the gross error in judgement by the BBC. It's been an invaluable public accountability engine. Thank you for all you've done to make it so. As the US moves into theatrical abuse of power, its cancellation is utterly incomprehensible.

Thank you Lucentia!

Just when we needed you most 😔
#BestWishes

Sorry about that Stephen, hope you go on to great things and we one day get a BBC back to be proud of

Thank you!🙏

Thank you so much for so many years of the best, most interesting & inspiring interviews available, holding people accountable for their actions & never letting the powerful get away with shallow phrases & excuses. It is a, huge, unforgivable mistake of @bbcworldservice.bsky.social to end Hardtalk.

The BBC wouldn’t recognise quality broadcasting if it was hit over the head with it. Very sorry to hear your going but much looking forward to your new platform.

So sad but thank you for the excellent and hard talks during all these years!

I could never match the great Studs Terkel!

Just at the time when the world needs more of your fearless journalism. Thank you for all those years of speaking truth to power.

You will be desperately missed. Thank you for the contributions to understanding the world
today. Best wishes going forward.

‘I feel really, really cross at incredibly dumb decisions’: Stephen Sackur on the end of HARDtalk – and leaving the BBC For 19 years he has held the powerful to account on a show that attracts huge audiences around the world. Now it is over. He discusses his anger with management, his pride in his team – and what he’ll...

Great interview with @stephensackur.bsky.social in @theguardian.com ⬇️

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

I’ve just recorded my last contribution for the BBC after 39 years. It’ll be on the next edition of From Our Own Correspondent on @BBCRadio4 and @bbcworldservice
Now onward to new adventures… As my hero Marcelo Bielsa might say, ‘Vamos Carajo!’

Headline acquires "rallying cry for investigative journalism" from Stephen Sackur Headline has acquired a "rallying cry for investigative journalism" from BBC journalist Stephen Sackur.

PERSONAL NEWS 🗞️

I’m thrilled to say I’m writing a book for the great people at @HeadlinePress1
If you care about truth-telling journalism, and the future of democracy I hope you’ll want to read it. More details in link ⬇️

www.thebookseller.com/rights/headl...

The BBC is making a grave mistake axing HARDtalk, says host Stephen Sackur "I fear the BBC is throwing away a precious asset at the worst possible time."

Wrote this for the Radio Times… I care enormously about the BBC which is why I’m trying to be transparent about why I’m leaving and where I think it’s going wrong

www.radiotimes.com/tv/current-a...

@stephensackur.bsky.social Just watching tonight's/this morning's HARDtalk and still feeling furious as a licence payer that the show has been cancelled. More than ever, we need journalists holding power to account. Looking forward to your next venture and sending best wishes.

‘I feel really, really cross at incredibly dumb decisions’: Stephen Sackur on the end of HARDtalk – and leaving the BBC For 19 years he has held the powerful to account on a show that attracts huge audiences around the world. Now it is over. He discusses his anger with management, his pride in his team – and what he’ll...

@stephensackur.bsky.social
"I don’t think at the very senior levels of the #BBC there is an awareness of just how big a show #HARDtalk is around the world.”

So many of us, still shaking our heads in disbelief ...

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

‘I feel really, really cross at incredibly dumb decisions’: Stephen Sackur on the end of HARDtalk – and leaving the BBC For 19 years he has held the powerful to account on a show that attracts huge audiences around the world. Now it is over. He discusses his anger with management, his pride in his team – and what he’ll...

Top interviewer @stephensackur.bsky.social talks to me about the BBC's decision to end HARDtalk, journalism v 'churnalism' and leaving the BBC
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

‘I feel really, really cross at incredibly dumb decisions’: Stephen Sackur on the end of HARDtalk – and leaving the BBC For 19 years he has held the powerful to account on a show that attracts huge audiences around the world. Now it is over. He discusses his anger with management, his pride in his team – and what he’ll...

Just a reminder of the fall of the BBC and the Tory lightweight journalists it now prefers - at the same time as ditching their mighty flagship HardTalk programme and the great @stephensackur.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

‘I feel really, really cross at incredibly dumb decisions’: Stephen Sackur on the end of HARDtalk – and leaving the BBC For 19 years he has held the powerful to account on a show that attracts huge audiences around the world. Now it is over. He discusses his anger with management, his pride in his team – and what he’ll...

BBC management is closing @BBCHARDtalk after three decades holding power to account around the world. Here are some thoughts ⬇️

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...