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

the world headquarters of common sense. You knew that, though, of course, didn't you? We awake this

morning to the news that there is a perfect storm apparently brewing, rising energy prices, trade

crises, and pressure on everybody's cost of living. But there are, as always, plenty of bright spots

as well. Pritchie Fettel is vowing to lock up the Musley Knitting M25 Brigade to stop them from holding

up the traffic whenever they like in the name of insulating Britain. The Home Secretary was

obviously listening to the show yesterday and picked up a couple of tips from yours truly,

and of course many of you who called in to say that these people should be completely and utterly outlawed

so that they can never hold up the traffic again.

Boris Johnson is still over in America.

He's got some things to do there before he comes back later on this week.

He's got a spring in his step, though, after opening up the travel corridor,

and he's now probably firmly of the opinion that Joe Biden isn't particularly

keen on proving himself to be a great ally of the United Kingdom, and I think it's better to know

that now.

He was making all sorts of noises about how the trade deal was going to be difficult, how we should

not be interfering in the Good Friday Agreement in order to get Brexit done in Northern

Ireland, and I think Joe Biden, quite frankly,

is not somebody that we can rely on to always be on our side. The other piece of unadulterated

good news for me is that the French is still fuming. Emmanuel Macron has been stewing in a temper

ever since Australia decided to ditch its submarine contract last week. Now he's threatened to give up

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