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

Well, it's Wednesday, it's Prime Minister's Questions. We're getting ever closer to Coronation Day,

and we'll be talking an awful lot about that, of course. Last night, as you will have seen this

morning, there was an incident at Buckingham Palace. There's now all sorts of talk about

whether it can be defended, whether the security around the coronation is going to be good enough. I was walking around in Westminster yesterday and I can tell you there's plenty of police around,

but you can't really stop somebody walking into an area where people are allowed to walk.

And unless you stop anybody from going there, you're always going to have a risk of one kind or another,

but we'll explore that with, amongst others, Kenfe, former Royal Security Man, of course,

as well as Paul Scully MP, who's going to be joining us a little bit later on in the show.

We kick off this morning, though, to talk about a great many things,

including the new police powers against the just stop oil nutters.

Also, another poll that's been done around the police, a EUGov poll this time,

in which it basically says the cops are not treating disruptive climate protesters harshly enough. In fact, not even,

are they not treating them harshly enough, but neither are the judges either. We'll also be talking

about National Anthem. Apparently some people think the National Anthem's a bit dull. Oh really?

Well, blow me over with a feather, as they used to say. Of course it's a bit dull. Oh really? Well, blow me over with a feather, as they used to say. Of course

it's a bit dull. It's meant to be a bit dull. It's meant to be traditional. It's meant to be a bit of

a dirge. You know, Julia Hartley-Brew this morning saying, why can't we have something brilliantly new

and exciting like Jerusalem, which is not really even named after Britain, is it? It's named after Jerusalem.

I know it's supposed to be about Britain, but that's not the point.

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