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

It is, of course, a brand new year. It's 2023. And look how much has changed already.

There isn't a rail strike anymore. Oh, no, no, there is a run of rail strike.

There is a rail strike going on.

The NHS has been solved and sorted out.

Well, not so much, actually.

The NHS is still in a crisis.

We've also got, of course, a whole bunch of strikes coming down the pike.

We've got the teachers threatening to go on strike.

We've got the people who run the teachers threatening to go on strike. We've got the people who run the

borders, threatened to go on strike again. Border Force. We're going to talk about that coming up

in this album. I'm going to talk to Baroness Claire Fox, first up, director of the Academy of Ideas,

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