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Good morning and welcome to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham right here on The Home of

of Common Sense. It is, of course, talk and radio. The world is once more becoming more

perplexing with each and every edict and regulation that seemed to be being issued almost by the

hour and then changed again. Today, we're expecting more announcements out of America from the

office of the president. Yep, it could be that Joe Biden is going to set quarantines on all visitors as of next week.

We're not sure if that's what he's going to do, but there's likely to be some kind of change if you are planning to go to the US of A

or maybe people are coming from there to here.

The Tories, meanwhile, are telling us not to kiss anyone under the mistletoe, as if that's still a thing. I mean,

I don't think anybody's done that for quite a few years, except for, of course, at Tory party,

Christmas parties, like the ones that Boris has in Downing Street where nobody else can have

one. And of course, Christmas parties are now being cancelled right, left and centre, even though

they keep telling us we don't have to do that. It's a very mixed picture. Nobody seems to know what to do. Nobody knows what's going on. We're waiting for the next shoe to drop. And it could

be good, it could be bad, it could be indifferent, we just don't know. And just for good measure,

the French are revolting again. President Emmanuel Macron has called Boris Johnson, Un clown. Not

quite in those words. I'm using sort of frunglish there because a knucklehead, which is a

particularly American phrase that I didn't know the French were particularly good at using.

But anyway, it won't come as much as of a surprise to Boris Johnson that Macron doesn't like

him, but I shouldn't think. We'll test the frosty diplomatic waters this morning with John Rensel,

Chief Political Commentator at the Independent, and we'll be checking out just how bad the power cuts are in the north of England

and Scotland as more than 30,000 people apparently are still waiting to have their power restored

after Storm Arwin at the weekend. Now I know that these things can be difficult to do. I know that

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