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Dangerous mid-morning debate with the great dictator.

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

It's the start of another week of preening, boasting, lying, eating weird and unusual foods, evictions, and chasing the popular vote.

But that's enough about the Brexit deal with Brussels and the campaigned by Theresa May to get everyone to like her.

After the crocodile tears shed by Michel Barnier in Brussels yesterday, I'm not sure I've got any emotions left for the I'm a Remainboat to get me out of here brigade.

And after watching the snowflake generation struggling to operate a blowtorch at a demonstration, you know our futures are in the right hands.

Today, though, it did start off quite well because British academic Matthew Hedges was pardoned by the UAE.

We're told he has now just been released from prison.

So it may well be that it'll be back in blighty by the end of the day, which can't be a bad thing at all.

But what on earth was going on there?

Why did the foreign office allow him to be claimed by the UAE as some kind of an MI6 spy?

It all seems a bit ridiculous, doesn't it? O344491,000. Coming up this hour, John Rental's going to

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