A Right Royal Arrest: Busted On His Birthday
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.7 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
ALL CAPS were exchanged. Cushions were screamed into. Andrew has been arrested.
Jemma and Marina dive headfirst into the breaking news that Prince Andrew was arrested at his Sandringham residence on suspicion of misconduct in public office. The internet did not disappoint. The memes were memeing. The birthday irony was exquisite. The startled-wombat visuals were unavoidable.
But amid the satire and schadenfreude, Jemma and Marina are crystal clear: at the heart of this grotesque scandal are survivors of abuse, thousands of children and young people harmed by a network of powerful men. Justice, not just jokes, is the point.
They unpack the arrest, the reactions, why some in America seem determined to make sure justice never darkens certain billionaire doorsteps. The callers, the chaos, and the memes that made it A Truly Great Day For The Internet
Plus: Under-Rateds, a new favourite account and a deliciously aged-like-milk Michael Spicer pudding.
It’s furious. It’s funny. It’s deeply uncomfortable.
Just the way the news cycle likes it.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, Andrew, arrested. |
| 0:03.2 | Tralled days were made for this, Marina. |
| 0:06.5 | Are you ready? |
| 0:07.3 | I'm ready, Gemma. |
| 0:08.2 | Stick him in Norwich Prison, in the worst cell I can find, |
| 0:13.9 | put a bag of high in there for him to sleep on, |
| 0:17.3 | just lock him up and forget about him. |
| 0:30.4 | Music just lock him up and forget about him. Hello and welcome to the troll where we calmly and methodically examine the news, |
| 0:35.8 | then scream into a cushion about it. I'm Gemma Forte. |
| 0:39.7 | And I'm Marina Perkins. Is it always calm? Sometimes I don't think we're calm. Thanks to Gemma, |
| 0:45.3 | by the way, who has been manning the trawl fort while I took a little bit of a break over half term. |
| 0:50.3 | Though we have been regularly in contact via WhatsApp, worryingly at at one point, we kind of realised that some of our comms were almost Trumpy in nature. |
| 1:00.5 | Yeah, I mean, we weren't, we weren't rambling, we weren't being fascist. |
| 1:05.4 | But due to the news, there were some texts that arrived in all caps. |
| 1:13.9 | One of them was from Marina to me and it read Andrew's been arrested. |
| 1:21.9 | Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I love a good news day and I've been waiting for Marina to get back. I was like, I love a good news day. |
| 1:28.3 | And I've been waiting for Marina to get back. |
| 1:31.3 | I was like, I can't wait to talk about this. |
| 1:33.7 | And I actually did tweet and say that that was like the warm up. |
| 1:36.6 | That was like the warm up news notification for when that, the other news notification comes in. |
| 1:41.7 | Do you know what I mean, Trulner? |
| 1:43.2 | I know what you mean, baby. I know what I mean, Trul? Oh, no, what you mean, baby? |
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