This is Talk Radio 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 and Mike Graham right here on Talk Radio.

The summer holiday season is well and truly upon us.

How do we know?

Because the government has told us.

We can go at the pub and stand at the bar.

How do we know that?

Because the government has told us.

And now we're going to have to put up with pressure being put on our children to get vaccinated. Why? Because the government has told us. It's good for us. Is anyone else getting sick

to death of being given permission to do things by this government? It's time, ladies and gentlemen,

to break free. Not quite sure how exactly we're going to do that, but we are going to do it.

But here's what I want from you today. I want to know whether you're suddenly packing a bag,

trying on your swimsuit, booking a plane ticket,

or does it all seem, for me, as it does,

like a bit too much trouble?

Up first this morning, we're going to be talking to John Rental,

Chief Political Correspondent, from the Independent, of course.

We'll get his take on the week in politics and we'll ask him what he's making of the way that this government

is kind of trying to take us out of COVID restrictions. 0344-49-1,000 coming up later on,

Helen Dale joins us with latest news from Australia where they're going into yet another

lockdown despite having a death toll of less than a thousand. People in Australia are getting

mightily sick to death of these

...