And so farewell to John Sweeney, who's announced his departure from the BBC today in a string of tweets:
1. After 17 years I'm leaving the BBC. It's high time to make trouble elsewhere. First stop, Malta. With Carlo Bonini and Manuel Delia I've written Murder On The Malta Express: Who Killed Daphne Caruana Galizia, to be published on October 14 by Midsea Books.
2. Thanks to my great pals at BBC. Together we helped free 5 cot death mums starting with Sally Clark, jailed on wrong evidence of Prof Sir Roy Meadow. Trump got challenged over his links with Russian mob, Putin over the shoot-down of MH17 and I yelled at Church of Scientology.
3. I'm sorry our BBC Panorama on Tommy Robinson wasn't broadcast. (I paid for all the drinks, BTW.) So after 17 years I can finally say these are not the views of the BBC but he's a complete c**t. I remain an old school reporter, up for the right kind of trouble. I'll be back.
