Stephanomics on austerity.

treliac

lostinrates wrote: »

Ah yes, I just get a flicker of remembering of that when I read it. Not jonathon King...don't remember him.

He had a lopsided mouth - like Lembit Opik. (Well still has, I suppose, wherever he's incarcerated.)

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

Ah yes, I just get a flicker of remembering of that when I read it. Not jonathon King...don't remember him.

I vaguely remember his show...wasn't that good. I think we used to spin the dial to music when he was on. He would go on and on about how he went to a school called Charterhouse. Every topic, phone guest and so on.....he popped it in. Didn't have google then...so had no idea why he kept poking it into the conversation.

I am not 100% sure about it now. Looks like it's going to be a google evening.

fc123

Jonathon King was a bit of a ''seedy type'' for want of a better expression......and was into teen boys. Used to have house parties and, as he was connected to the music industry, lot's of young boys would turn up.
His Wiki is here

In November 2000, King was charged with sexual offences dating back to the early 1970s. After the case attracted publicity, several more men came forward with complaints, and further charges were laid. Following a trial in September 2001, he was convicted and received a seven-year prison sentence for offences against boys of 14 and 15 committed between 1983 and 1989.[24] He was refused permission to appeal in January 2003 by the Court of Appeal in London,[4] and was released on parole in March 2005. As of February 2008, a further appeal was reported to be before the European Court of Human Rights.[5]

On his release he stated his intention to return to the music and entertainment industries.[25]
King's involvement with prison and justice reform continued; in June 2006 he addressed an audience in the House of Commons alongside Jonathan Aitken and spoke at length on the need for reform of the system, an appearance covered at length in The Times on 27 June.[26]

In 2007 he released a collection of mainly new songs, entitled Earth to King. One of these attracted criticism in July 2007, because it was seen as defending the world's most prolific serial killer Dr. Harold Shipman.[27]
In May 2008, he released a 96 minute film called Vile Pervert: The Musical, which included 21 characters all portrayed by King. Available for free download on the internet, the film features full-frontal nudity from King and comprises many pieces to camera dressed in various outfits while caricaturing the Police, the media, the PR industry, the legal system and his accusers. He also sings many of his own compositions during the film.[28]
In December 2009 he published his autobiography, 65 My Life So Far

I can' t face googling 'Vile pervert' in case my laptop needs a repair soon.