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Good morning, welcome to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham right here on Talker Radio.

Happy St. George's Day, everybody, even to those of you who don't think of

yourselves as English. And there are many people who would say you should be sorry about that.

I'm not one of them, by the way. It's a beautiful day out there as we meander towards another weekend of fun and frolics.

For some, anyway, there's an awful lot of news to digest this morning. We're going to help you navigate the smorgas board of information. First up, if Dominic Cummings, the former chief advisor to the Prime Minister, is really leaking

private text messages from Boris Johnson's phone, isn't he guilty of some kind of breach of

confidentiality, or possibly even the Official Secrets Act?

Is it all some kind of elaborate ruse to confuse everyone about the lobbying scandal?

And above all else else does anyone care?

I'm beginning to wonder if Dominic Cummings is leaking about himself leaking the Prime Minister's text messages just to make himself seem more important. Also, to throw everybody off the cent of

the real story, which is the lobbying scandal. That all sounds very Dominic Cummings to me.

We'll be asking Nick Dubois, former Tory MP, of course, about what's going on.

Far more important, in my view, though, is the unrelenting march to climate action by this government

who were given no mandate to order us to not fly too much, not to eat too much meat, not to drive too much,

and to make sure we never turn up the heating, ever.

Dale Vince, vegan, extraordinaire and founder of Eco Energy Company,

Ecotricity, will be here in another attempt to convince me that there is a climate crisis and that we therefore need to eat less meat and less fish and that we should all drive around

in electric vehicles of one kind or another. 0344491,000. If what has been another big week

for the race industry, we'll catch up with Dr. Rikiva San on why the Labour Party is still stoking up tensions and finding reasons to blame everything on racism.

And Kevin O'Sullivan will be here as well with his take on the week and I look ahead to some big shows coming up this weekend.

I might even ask him if he's booked a holiday yet.

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