WHOA

Yeah, what interesting news…

The former Sydney radio host Alan Jones has been arrested by New South Wales police after a “long, thorough, protracted” investigation into alleged indecent assault and sexual touching offences spanning two decades.
Child abuse squad detectives arrested the veteran broadcaster and former Wallabies coach about 7.45am on Monday at a unit in Sydney’s Circular Quay. […]
The arrest came after months of investigation by NSW police, which began in March to investigate a number of alleged indecent assaults and sexual touching incidents between 2001 and 2019.

2001 and 2019, hmmm? That’d be right in the thick of his radio career, the majority of which happened under various Liberal governments for which he was a happy stooge and mouthpiece… the only thing I have against Betoota’s interpretation—which I’ve also seen advanced seriously by someone on Mastodon before I saw the Betoota graphic—is that you could potentially read the present situation as Labor taking revenge on Jones or something, and I wouldn’t be surprised if his defenders use that angle in their no doubt impending hysterical screeds about this being a miscarriage of justice and shit.

Fuck him, though. Long before these specific allegations came out last December, Chris Masters published allegations about him misbehaving with the boys at Brisbane Grammar School where he was a teacher in the ’60s, and of course there was the infamous (and weirdly hushed up) “toilet incident” in London in the ’80s, which I feel was neither his first nor last adventure in “outraging public decency”… but my own loathing for Gloria is a bit more personally based quite apart from him objectively being a cunt; once upon a time a friend of mine was doing publicity work for some event he was involved, and she said he cracked the almighty shits at her because her description of him in the promotional material was insufficiently fawning and sycophantic. Jones’ egomania was never in doubt, of course, but I hadn’t realised his utter pettiness until then. So I am quite happy to see this thing get taken down, for being a scumbag to a friend of mine on top of all the other bad shit we know he’s done and the 24 things he’s now been charged with in this investigation. Ger ready for that chaff bag, Al…