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Hello and welcome to the spike podcast.

I'm Fraser Meyers and joining me as ever in the studio we have Spikes Editor Tom Slater.

Hello.

And down the line from Luton, we're delighted to have spiked columnist Rakeeb

Essam.

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Coming up on today's show, the arrest of anti-monarchy protesters, the fallout from the local elections, and the Archbishop of Canterbury's

meddling in migration policy.

So ahead of the coronation this weekend, Tom, there were six anti-monarchy

protesters arrested. They weren't even able to start their demonstration. There's been a lot of condemnation of the police for this.

People have rightly said this is a very authoritarian act.

The police themselves have since apologized.

They had these powers under the Public Order Act which

should only just recently come in. First of all, what do you make of the arrests? I

mean it was quite chilling really. Yes, I mean it was from the moment that I heard

that Graham Smith, the CEO of Republic, the Republican campaign group,

...