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

It is of course the beginning of yet another week, the second week in 2023.

And guess what?

Prince Harry still tops the news.

He's on the front pages of all the papers after his

interview last night with Tom Bradby on ITV. Possibly one of the worst interviews I think I've

ever had the misfortune of watching. I did watch it because I said I would. I haven't watched

the Netflix series. I won't read his book, but I will watch the interviews that he does,

purely and simply to see what he looks like while he's answering these questions.

Incredibly last night, he denied that he and Megan had never suggested or said that the royal

family was in fact racist. This despite picking up an award from the Kennedy Foundation just a month ago

for fighting institutional racism in, yep, you guessed it, the royal family. What they didn't do after that was get up on stage and say actually it's all very well

giving us a nice award for fighting institutional racism in the royal family, but actually there isn't any.

So we probably should give the award back.

I mean, it's really quite extraordinary.

He also seems to have mis-recallected all sorts of other bits and pieces.

The Taliban is still after him, by the way. They're now calling for reparations to the royal family for the 25 people

that he killed. They're now also saying that he should stand for war crimes in the tribunal

in the Hague, which is pretty rich coming from the Taliban, it has to be said. But there's

lots going on this morning. Ben Habib is here with us. I'm going to get his view on what on earth Harry thinks he's doing. He seems to have taken too many mushrooms, smoked too much weed and snorted just a few too many

lines of cocaine. That's before we get to the ketamine, which technically is a horse tranquiliser,

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