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

that's all right then. Everyone can relax. The world is a better place and Lady Gaga is going to save the planet, one bacon dress at a time. Honestly, the forning over the inauguration of Joe Biden

yesterday by the assembled hacks of the TV media was quite something to behold. Apparently

the bad, nasty man had left Washington and the superhero had arrived with his

cape and everything.

Anyone would think it was the first time the new president had set foot in the White House,

when in actuality he's already had one go before for eight years when he and Barack Obama

spent most of their time bombing foreign countries and setting fire to the Middle East.

In fact, you might say that they

actually and their foreign policy laid waste to so many countries like Libya, Iraq, Syria, etc.,

that all of the refugees that we're now seeing flooding into Europe are actually the result of

Obama and Biden's foreign policy. Thank you, Sleepy Joe. His accepted speech with a snooze fest,

entirely predictable and

suitably virtue signaling for all his lefty fans and Trump haters around the world. Now, though,

the hard work begins and it'll be a lot more than just removing a Churchill statue from the Oval

Office. We'll be talking to reform UK party leader Nigel Farage for his thoughts on what happened

yesterday, but also on the last four years as well.

0344-49-1,000. Meanwhile, back in the world of lockdown, we are greeted with the news that in the first few days of the new year,

COVID infections actually went up rather than down, making even the Imperial College modelers concede that the lockdown might not be working.

So that's all right then as well. We'll be finding out why,

despite the staggeringly high numbers of death yesterday, the NHS is still coping with the crisis,

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