Rod Liddle, a prominent columnist for the Sun and the Sunday Times, died at The James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough on Sunday evening following a brief illness. The 66-year-old journalist and broadcaster had a distinguished career that included serving as editor of BBC Radio 4's flagship Today programme, writing a weekly column for the Spectator, and hosting a show on Times Radio. His children, Wilder, Tyler, and Emmy, expressed their shock and sadness at his sudden passing, praising him for raising them to be inquisitive, brave, and humorous, and noting that even in hospital he "consistently held the room."