The Independent Republic of Mike Graham: May 17

Morning Glory with Mike Graham

Matt Hall

News, Unknown, News & Politics

4.4 • 741 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

A PR Director is reported to be making thousands in refunds and free products via complaining and exercising his consumer rights - are we complaining too much? Mike and Daisy speak to expert Helen Dewdney, the excellently named Complaining Cow.Amsterdam's city politicians are clubbing together to clamp down on 'Disneyfication' of the city by tourists, by banning short term Airbnb stays and raising tourist tax - but will it work? Dan Fahey from Lonely Planet discusses this.

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0:00.0	Across the UK, online and on DAB, the Independent Republic of Mike Graham on Talk Radio.
0:07.1	More blasted rhetoric from the Banana Republic.
0:10.6	For people who think capital punishment isn't going nearly far enough.
0:15.3	Dangerous mid-morning debate with the great dictator.
0:18.5	The Independent Republic of Mike Graham on Talk Radio.
0:25.5	Good morning and welcome to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham right here on Talk Radio.
0:29.3	Dangerous, disrespectful and drug-ridden.
0:31.8	That's not a description of the mean streets of Manchester or London,
0:34.5	not a warning of what is going on behind the scenes at the Notting Hill Carnival either.
0:37.7	No, this is a direct quote from the Chief Inspector of Prisons in England and Wales.
0:41.8	Peter Clark is talking about HMP Nottingham, where as many as nine inmates have committed suicide
0:46.9	in the last two years, unable to face the conditions in which they are forced to live.
0:51.2	I've never been particularly in favour of Cushy Jails for serious offenders,
0:54.5	but surely we can do better than this.
0:56.6	What chances anyone have working in that environment?
0:59.3	There are literally hundreds of instances of self-harm every single year,
1:02.7	and the only conclusion, once again,
1:04.3	is that somebody in government is not doing their job.
1:07.0	0344-491,000.
1:09.2	Coming up later on, we'll be making the case
1:10.9	with the renationalisation of the train network in this country
1:13.9	because the current system of subsidy
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