Good morning and welcome to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham, right here on Talk

and Radio. So here we are, ladies and gentlemen, standing, as it were, on the edge of the next bit.

You know, the bit where everyone starts to work out that they can't continue living like hermits,

the bit where they can't assume they'll never have to do another day's work in their entire lives,

and the realisation that the bubble at some point is actually going to burst.

It's the final Prime Minister's Questions of the summer,

and the last chance for Captain Hindsight, sorry, Sarkier-Starma,

to make some kind of impression and land a punch on the Prime Minister Boris Johnson. One of the odds, you'd have to say they're not very good, are they?

Because he has been incredibly boring, incredibly forensic and incredibly useless, is what I would say.

He makes it into Plank of the Week this week.

We'll be telling you more about that later on, of course.

We'll bring it all to you live in the company of political correspondent Charlotte Ivers. Coming up later on, we'll be joined once more by historian, archaeologist Neil Oliver.

I'll be asking him why we have become such a humorless and frightened society and how on earth we're going to fix it.

And of course, you want to hear from you as well.

You are the eyes and ears of the independent Republican Mike Graham and we need to know what you're doing, what you're seeing, what you're hearing.

Are you going back to work? If not, why not? Are you going to start wearing masks as of this Friday? And

what are you going to do if somebody tries to find you for not wearing one? Up first though,

it's former Tory MP Stuart Jackson with his take on how the rest of the summer will go for

the government, where we are with China and Russia, and what Downing Street we'll be focusing on in the weeks to come. And we'll be finding out how a name can change the way people view

you and can help forge your personality. This is after two parents decided it would be a great

idea to name their child, Lucifer. Well done. 034449-1,000. Russell Quirk also joins us with the news that landlords are making rental properties even smaller than ever.

And on our homeschooling section today, we're going to be learning all about the internet.

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