“I’ve just been a miserable bastard all my life,” Gerry Harvey told 3AW’s Neil Mitchell on Tuesday morning, confirming, verbatim, what we’ve always said about the billionaire retailer.

Harvey proceeded to complain that “the biggest problem now is that you’re not allowed to [be outspoken] any more. It doesn’t matter what you say, you get attacked. And social media [is] extraordinarily spiteful and nasty. It’s at such a stage now where, why am I doing this interview with you?”