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

It is a bright and sunny morning out there, ladies and gentlemen, and the world is beginning to return to the common sense view of things. As we knew it would, you could be forgiven

for thinking that the world in recent weeks has actually gone stark, staring bonkers

mad. When people start asking whether chess is racist, whether the countryside is for white

people only, and when Formula One teams declare that they are painting their cars black in solidarity with Black Lives Matter, you know that tokenism and virtue

signalling has reached its peak, because after all, that ain't going to make a half-apefee's worth

of difference to the world of equality. Last night, however, the landscape looked very different.

And we have Sarkir Stama to thank for it. That's right. I'm going

to be thanking Sir Kier Stama for doing something good. The leader of the Labour Party was very

firm when he came out and declared that he could not and never would support an organisation

whose aims included defunding the police. As a former attorney general, he said that was an

untenable position for the leader of the opposition

to hold. And so, I applaud him for coming out and saying that so strongly, saying it so

very deliberately, and by upsetting some of the people inside the Labour Party, I take my hat off to

him. His statement followed the Black Lives Matter official Twitter account, tweeting out

about standing with Palestine and the illegal

occupation of its lands by Israel. An issue which seemed to anyone sensible was clearly beyond

the remit of racial equality in the United Kingdom. And as a result, the Premier League,

which had previously ordained that all footballers should have Black Lives Matter emblazoned

on their backs for every single game,

also signalled a retreat by distancing themselves from the organisation while continuing to support their cause. For the BLM anarchists and crypto-communists, the game is up, ladies and gentlemen.

We'll hear from podcaster and journalist Johnny Gould, who has been calling for the football

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