Scott Mills, the longtime BBC Radio presenter (notably host of Radio 2's breakfast show since January 2025), has been sacked by the BBC

Hello, good morning. Well, the news yesterday was Scott Mills, the long-time BBC radio presenter.

Notably, he's the host of Radio 2's biggest show. In fact, the UK's biggest breakfast show,

the Radio 2 breakfast show that used to be presented by... Oh, Griff got in his name,

Chris Evans, that's the one. He's been doing that since 2025. He took over from Zoe Ball.

He has been sat by the BBC over historic allegations relating to his personal conduct.

Now, he was investigated by the police 10 years ago and they dropped the case. That was the end of

that. And as far as we know, and there's no reason to think otherwise, you know, he's obviously

here's innocent until proven guilty. He wasn't proven guilty, therefore he is innocent. In this

country, you don't have to, since about the 1100s, you haven't been required to prove your innocence.

The, basically, the system they had around about 11th, 12th century continental Europe,

it was the inquisitorial system where you'd have, basically, you'd be told by the state that

you're guilty and you'd have to try and prove you're innocent. It was the English common law,

the English legal system that invented the idea of innocent until proven guilty,

completely flipping the old system on its head. And that's the system we've had ever since,

so he's innocent. As far as we all know, there's no reason to think that anything is coming down

the pipeline. It looks like the BBC has panicked. There's a new boss coming in. I think today or

yesterday is his first day, a new boss coming in from Google to run the BBC. And it looks like

they've panicked and wanted to sort of get rid of him, but it's very weird because presumably

10 years ago, the BBC knew about this. There's no way 10 years ago he could have been investigated.

And when we say investigated, it looks from what we know. He was, basically,

interviewed under caution. Let me tell you, the police interview all kinds of people, all the time

under caution. Today, officially, or yesterday, again, because you never know with the time lag,

with some of the stories that you see on Twitter, on X, sometimes it was published yesterday,

but you don't see it until today. But basically, officially, the government has told the police

to stop investigating what people are writing online. Simple stuff. But up until recently,

you could be accused of whatever, breaking the law online, and the police would investigate

you and quite possibly sort of interview under caution. It doesn't really mean much.

You're interviewed under caution, meaning that you're, you know, that they're going to keep

a record of what you're saying, and they could use it against you. The whole Miranda thing,

blah, blah, blah. So we have a situation where he was interviewed. So the BBC must have known

about this. And then as far as we know, nothing happened. And it's just that it's come to light,

somehow, and the BBC have decided to sack him to minimize the reputation, reputational damage.

So it doesn't look on the face of it. What do they say in law?

Primer-facy? It doesn't look at on the base of it. It doesn't look like anything new is coming out.

So where do we stand?