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the Independent Republic of Mike Graham on talk radio.

More blasted rhetoric from the Banana Republic,

for people who think capital punishment isn't going nearly far enough.

Dangerous mid-morning debate with the Great Dictator.

The Independent Republic of Mike Graham on Talk Radio.

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

It's Valentine's week, but there doesn't seem to be all that much love in the air out there

this morning. Despite the massive loving that was the bathas last night, we'll be talking a little bit about

that. Apparently, the favourite won a lot of awards, but we will get into that later on.

There was some pretty cringe-worthy speeches, an awful lot of virtue signalling. At one point I put a tweet out saying there's so much virtue signaling going on that actually they might as well have seven-of-fall flags to do it with.

This morning, though, we'll be setting out the agenda for what is actually important in this country.

And guess what? It is not Theresa May.

It is not Jeremy Corbyn, despite the big Tom Bauer book, all about what a terrible, dreadful, awful man he is.

It's not even Brexit, or Nigel Farage forming a new political party, which up to now

doesn't seem to be making much traction.

It's education and the way we actually should be doing it properly in this country.

What I don't understand is why people don't realise that the only way forward is to make

the realisation that children are not all the same.

They don't learn the same, they don't understand the same, and they certainly do not have the same capabilities at the same age.

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