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

What a glorious day to be alive.

The sun's shining, not very hard.

It's not that hot, even though John Simpson and the BBC tell us that the world is on fire

and we're all burning up out of all proportions of everything else. We're going to talk about that. We're going to talk,

of course, about what's going on at Nat West and Coot. Yet another head has been scalped by Nigel Farage.

We're also going to talk as well, of course, about the migrant barge, because I'm hoping to put people on it today. I say sell it back to France and let them off and tell them they're in Dover.

They won't know the difference. It won't make any difference at all. Also, of course, we've got the Veterans Voice, which is the big, big, big show that we do on a Friday where we help the people

who have served their country, who have given possibly their lives for this country, and their

families need help, and we are going to helpfully get it for them.

I'm also going to kick things off first thing this morning with the U-LES verdict because Zed Khan is in court today finding out whether his expansion of the U-Lez zone

is actually going to be lawful and whether people are going to have to pay through the nose

to drive in their own neighbourhoods, £12.50 a time. Absolutely shocking.

First up though, Alan Brazil is here,

the legend of talk sport, the man who brought talk sport to the world and basically created it

out of nothing. And here he is now. Very unusual to see you after 10 o'clock hours still working.

I didn't know it was in your contract to do that. This is not work. No. This is a pleasure.

It's a pleasure. This is what I keep telling people. This is a pleasure. This is what I keep telling people.

People said to me, why don't you take more holidays?

I said, well, it's not really work, is it?

I mean, we sit here and we talk for a living.

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