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

The sun is out. The sky is blue. There's nothing here to spoil the view.

Oh, hang on a minute. There's Alex Salmon alleging corruption at the highest levels of the SNP and the Scottish government.

There's Harry Wales. I'm refusing to call him Prince Harry now, moaning that the British press have ruined his mental health. And as if that wasn't enough, we've got Jihadi Bride Shemima Begham

just being refused permission to come back to this country by the Supreme Court

after spending six years playing out a terrorist fantasy

with the deadly ISIS cult in the Middle East.

She's going to have to stay there now and rot.

I'm quite happy about that, aren't you?

Just an everyday Friday then in the

Independent Republic of Mike Graham with the side order of Mr Potato Head losing his gender,

Lady Gaga losing her dog. So the BBC saying they want more British cartoons on television instead

of The Simpsons to help celebrate British culture, whatever they think that is. To help us navigate

through all the madness, we're talking first to Fort, with Tori M.B. Nick Dubois,

who's back on talk radio this weekend.

I'll be asking him how he thinks the roadmatch

a recovery is going,

and possibly a little peek ahead to next week's budget

with Rishi Sunak, 034449-1,000.

Coming up, we'll be checking in with Dr. Rikiba San

from the Henry Jackson Society with his survey this week,

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