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Across the UK, online, on DAB and on your smart speaker, the Independent Republic of Mike Graham,

on Talk Radio.

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

So, I think we're nearly there, aren't we? Nearly at the point of turning, almost at the corner,

you can practically taste it, can't you? Could all this caution and pre-caution actually be

masking what is really going on out there? And could that roadmap next Monday actually be far better

and operationally faster than we imagine? I've got a theory and I'm going to espouse it to you

right now. Boris Johnson is being,

shall we say, slightly economical with the truth because here's a question for you. Do you remember

back in these sort of dark days of autumn when they were giving us all these terrible doomy and gloomy

forecasts about how bad the coronavirus was going to get about how the NHS was going to be overwhelmed

unless we did something about it about how many NHS was going to be overwhelmed unless we did

something about it, about how many people were going to die. All of these projections into the

future of how bad things were going to be. Yesterday, right, we have a press briefing at which

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