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

Much to do today.

Happy Valentine's Day to those of you who are celebrating it.

If you're not celebrating it, that's also fine.

You don't need to buy anybody a card.

You don't have to buy people flowers.

You don't have to do anything at all.

You might think it's all a bit too commercial. It might be just too, well, just do something nice for somebody.

That would be all right, wouldn't it? You don't have to buy them anything. Just do something nice.

Make them some tea, make them some toast, make some breakfast, you know, the usual kind of stuff.

People will appreciate it. Let me tell you that. Now, we've got plenty to talk about this morning. We've got to talk about China, obviously, because China is right in the middle of a storm right now, not least because

of all these Chinese spy balloons that are apparently appearing all over the place,

from Britain to America, to China, to all points, west, east, north and south of that. The

Chinese, of course, say they're not

spy balloons. The Americans say they're shooting them down. Rishi Sunak says he's got the

RAF on standby to shoot them down. I mean, I've been saying this for a while. It does seem like

a very strange story to me. But I really do wonder, after the journey into work that I had

this morning, which was incredibly difficult due to all the traffic.

Whether these balloons are actually some kind of demonic curse that is attracting all sorts of

bad things that actually is affecting the traffic, is affecting the systems that we operate here

in the UK. I wonder if they operate in a way which they in some way interfere with their traffic control.

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