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Talk Breakfast
Ricky Freelove
4.3 • 763 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2022
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Author and Sociologist Professor Frank Furedi kicks off today's show to discuss the morning's top headlines including Nicola Sturgeon's new calls for yet another Scottish Independence referendum, Boris Johnsons new Covid inquiry and why parents are battling to see ‘secret’ lessons on white privilege. Former Defence Minister & Former Conservative MP Sir Gerald Howarth joins shortly after to discuss the latest from the Ukraine/Russia conflict as Boris Johnson arrives at NATO under pressure to boost UK defence spending and Turkey lifts objections to Finland and Sweden’s Nato membership bid. Chief Executive of the Freedom Association Andrew Allison returns to the Independent Republic to discuss Halifax banks latest woke controversy as they now insist on putting gender pronouns on staff labels, and as strikes continue we get Andrew’s take on Royal Mail workers set to vote on strike over pay, while Mirror, Express and local newspapers face strike risks too. TV personality Carol Vorderman joins Mike to seen her condolences to the late Dame Deborah James after she sadly passed away of Bowel Cancer aged 40. And Former Superintendent of the Met, Nusrit Mehtab closes the show to discuss why the Met Police are putting in special measures by a watchdog. All that and so much more, so tune in!
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| 0:00.0 | The Independent Republic of Mike Graham on Talk Radio. |
| 0:04.8 | And here we are. It is Wednesday morning. I don't know where the sun has disappeared to. |
| 0:08.1 | Yesterday was a beautiful day, I have to say. I was able to spend quite a lot of time out in the sunshine. |
| 0:13.2 | Today, for some reason, the sunshine has disappeared. I don't know where it's gone. |
| 0:16.4 | We'll try and get it back. But we will be talking about a great many things over the course of the show. Some will be sad, some will be happy, some will annoy you massively. Sir Gerald Howeth is going |
| 0:25.1 | to be here. He's going to talk about the NATO summit, which is going on over in Madrid. Boris Johnson, |
| 0:29.7 | of course, spoke yesterday about the situation with Moscow, with Russia, with Vladimir Putin. |
| 0:35.5 | We're going to talk as well about Nicholas Sturgeon and her wish |
| 0:38.0 | to take to the Supreme Court the idea that referendums should not be decided by Westminster, but should |
| 0:44.2 | be decided by the people of Scotland. She now wants a second referendum to get independence for Scotland. |
| 0:49.2 | I know a lot of people in England will say, good. Good riddance. In fact, people in England, many of them will say |
| 0:55.4 | if we could vote in it, they would definitely get independence. But I would say to you that the |
| 1:00.1 | Union is a very important thing. Great Britain and Northern Ireland exists as a great nation |
| 1:04.8 | of four countries made up into one. Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland. I don't wish |
| 1:10.5 | to see any part of that |
| 1:11.5 | disappearing off. And I think most people in Scotland don't either. And certainly the polls would |
| 1:15.5 | suggest that if there was a referendum today, it would not happen. 0344-49-1,000 is the number. Let's |
| 1:22.0 | kick things off very much, first of all, with Professor Frank Faradie, author, sociologists, of course, as well. Frank, |
| 1:27.9 | a very good morning to you. Good morning, Mike. Let's kick things off with Scotland, first of all. |
| 1:32.6 | What's your take on the kind of power play, which you might call Nicholas Sturgeon's move? |
| 1:38.6 | Well, it is a power play. I think she's trying to, in a sense, reinforce her position. |
| 1:46.0 | She's under a lot of pressure within Scotland, or a lot of people are getting a little bit fed up |
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