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Morning Glory with Mike Graham

Elections, Minister for Hospitality, and Graham v Hitchens Round Thirty-Eight

Morning Glory with Mike Graham

Matt Hall

News, Unknown, News & Politics

4.4741 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

No better way to kick off the week than with John Rentoul from The Independent, followed by Mail on Sunday Columnist Peter Hitchens. Plus, we catch up with celebrity chef Cyrus Todiwala to talk about the debate about whether we need a Minister for Hospitality.

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0:00.0

Across the UK, online, on DAB and on your smart speaker, the Independent Republic of Mike Graham on Talk Radio.

0:14.7

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

0:18.9

So, how was it for you then?

0:20.5

The first proper weekend of the

0:22.1

new national lockdown. No driving, no walking, no cycling, no talking, no hugging, no eating,

0:27.7

no drinking, no mingling, no shopping, no holidaying, no loitering and absolutely no dissenting.

0:34.6

Not from the truth, obviously, because if you do that, then you must be the most

0:37.6

awful, ghastly, horrible individual. You must want everybody to die. But at least we're safe

0:42.1

in the knowledge that all the things that are being denied to us are worth it in the long run,

0:45.4

because the lockdown plan seems to be finally working. I mean, only about 3,000 people died

0:49.9

over the weekend, right? So Mr. Chris Whitty, I'm afraid your plan does not exactly seem to be

0:55.7

following through. This morning we await to the news that the apparently draconian lockdown

0:59.5

measures might actually be tightened. Not quite sure how, by the way. We've got Chief Medical

1:03.6

Officer Chris Whitty all over the TV telling us to stay at home and the Philanderer in chief,

1:07.8

Neil Ferguson reckons that London might already have herd immunity to COVID, or it will have it soon.

1:13.6

Now hang on a minute, all of the people that we've spoken to on this radio station, and we are often accused of being COVID deniers, which of course is absolutely not for the incorrect.

1:21.8

Apparently if we said herd immunity could be achievable because other people would actually get the virus.

1:27.9

That was described as blood on your hands.

1:30.3

That was described as something terrible.

1:32.1

That was described as the kind of talk that was dangerous.

1:35.1

The kind of talk that made lives die.

1:38.2

Well, I'm sorry, Neil Ferguson is still an advisor to the government.

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