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Good morning and welcome to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham.

It's a Monday morning and it's all kicking off.

You would not believe what's happened already.

I've only been here about an hour and a half and it's already mayhem, not just in this office,

but all over the place, particularly in Parliament, and particularly down in Downey Street.

They're still reeling from the Hancock papers, all the lockdown files, what would you wish to call them,

Isabel Oakshot's cache of WhatsApp messages, which have been running the headlines in the Daily Telegraph

for almost a week now. Absolutely extraordinary stuff. John Rental is here. We haven't seen him for a while. We'll find out what he makes of it all. We'll also find out what he makes of what is about to become a new law. Coming tomorrow, we'll be talking to Stephen Wolfe about this as well. There's going to be new laws which will apparently stop migrants from coming here at all. If you believe that, I've got some swamp land in Florida to sell you, where maybe they could go.

Also, of course, we've been covering a couple of very big court cases coming up this morning.

There's going to be a sentencing hearing for Wayne Cousins, for another offence that he committed.

That would be the one of flashing the lady who was serving in McDonald's. Also, Charles Bronson, the longest serving prisoner in the

history of Britain's jails, is up for parole. He's a man who's been in prison nearly 50 years.

He's never actually murdered anybody. He's never actually committed a massively violent crime

outside of prison, but he keeps committing them inside. He says he's nearly 70 and he deserves

to be let out. Some people disagree. Peter Hitchens will be here, of course. He says he's nearly 70 and he deserves to be let out.

Some people disagree.

Peter Hitchens will be here, of course.

He's written an awful lot about the lockdown files this weekend.

And we'll be talking about dentists because apparently can't get one.

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