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Good morning and welcome to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham right here at the home of common sense.

It is, of course, talk radio.

I've returned to the studio after a very sombre weekend following the horrific murder of MP Sir David Amos.

The suspect has been named as Ali Harvey Ali, whose father moved to the UK from Somalia,

where he was an advisor to the previous government.

This morning, as police continue to question him,

there are suggestions that the killer may have been motivated by Sir David's links to Qatar,

which supports the current regime in the African nation. I feel that we are now living in a very

global world. We are living in a very globalized world. There seems to be no apparent reason

why a man like Ali Harvey Ali, who was brought up in

this country, who went to school in Croydon, but who has been radicalised in some way by Islamic

fundamentalists, should want to kill one of the most popular MPs that has ever been in the

House of Commons. All weekend, there have been calls for people to be nicer to one another,

not just on social media, but in politics generally. There has been much talk of previous incidents

involving MPs and a need for better security. But there's also time, surely, to talk about

the ever-increasing threat that exists to all of us from bedroom radicals who have been

converted to terrorism during lockdown. Ali himself, his thoughts have been radicalised by the hate creature Anjim Chowdry,

who had jailed in 2015, but is now free to wander the streets of the UK after being released

on licence.

And surely, in the wake of intelligence service warnings about North East African Islamic

terror groups, it is time to properly check the identities of those young men entering

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