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The Independent Republic of Mike Graham on Talk Radio.

Good morning and welcome to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham right here on talk of radio.

So here we are. It's a Monday and once again we appear to be on the horns of a dilemma.

The Metropolitan Police seem to think it's okay to be violent towards women who are involved in a protest about violence against women.

Their boss, Crescenta Dick, who spends most of the time in an armchair,

has hit out at people calling for her resignations as a result of what happened at the weekend as

armchair critics. Women, who were told not to hold a vigil for murder victim Sarah Everard,

did so anyway, and were then joined by the usual renter mob types, who used the solemn event

as an excuse to have a punch-up with the cops who suffered, of course, injuries to 26 officers assaulted

as a result of what was going on. They say they were simply enforcing the COVID lockdown

rules, but of course they weren't just doing that, were they? Because last night they were

just involving themselves in carrying out the duties of the police in invoking the COVID rules,

but they didn't do the same thing.

They had completely different strategy. It's all a colossal mess.

And later, another bill comes before Parliament to tighten the laws and restrictions around COVID. We'll be asking Tory MP Deanna Davidson, what it is all about?

0344-49-1,000. Coming up later on, Peter Hitchens joins us, the mail-on-sunday columnists will have

plenty to say about the continuing erosion of our liberties, not least the rather inconsistent

policing of different protests. And of course, he's been writing in his mail on Sunday column as

well about the need to keep the royal family as well. We'll also hear from Royal Author

11th, a week on from that interview and the fallout over the weekend,

plus the news that Meg's apparently fancies herself as president of the free world.

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