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Good morning and welcome to the Independent Republic and Mike Graham.

It is yet another start to yet another week and my goodness me, it's already quite busy, isn't it?

We've got all sorts of migratts stories to talk about this morning.

I'm delighted to say we're going to be joined by Lord Stuart Jackson.

First up, we've got Peter Hitchens on the show.

We get Al Memitt on the show to talk about it all as well.

And, of course, we've got some crime to discuss.

Because it turns out that lo and behold, the police have managed to lose about 500 sex offenders over the course of the weekend.

We learned this because we've been told that they're definitely going to track them down.

They're definitely going to get them back under their control.

And they're definitely never going to let them just wander the world, wondering whether they can ever do any of the

things that they did before.

Some of these people are serious sex offenders, rapists, he defiles, and yet somehow they

were being monitored, but aren't any more.

It seems to be something very, very wrong.

We've also heard that half of crimes sold by police result in absolutely no charges whatsoever. I mean, call me old-fashioned. I just want the police

to arrest the bad guys, charge them, and try and ensure that they deliver them to the justice

system so that they can then be punished for what it is that they've done, whether that

includes a sentence in a prison, whether that includes custody or not,

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