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, welcome to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham right here on talk of radio.

We've got lots going on this morning, ladies and gentlemen, and we need your help to take the temperature of the nation.

After the Freedom Day rehearsal yesterday, we know where we stand.

Almost everyone now calling for more lockdowns, more restrictions and more controlling of the populace,

the beleaguered populace that is us, is now in the box reserved for the overcautious, the risk averse, the anxious,

and those who have very nice houses to isolate away for everybody else.

Because the rest of us just want to get on with it, don't we?

For heaven's sake, the cat is very much out of the bag.

Tell us what you're seeing, tell us what you're hearing,

and tell us if your entire attitude has now changed. I was wandering around London yesterday. It was very clear to me that there are more and more

people who have just said, you know what, to hell with it. To hell with you, Boris, to hell with your restrictions,

and to hell with behaving like some kind of, you know, ridiculous nanny state and the handmade tail, walking around,

not looking at anyone, keeping a mask over your face, covering your head, walking about five

meters away from the person in front of you. No, no longer, I think, you will find,

after sensible people doing any of that. First up, we've got Ben Habib, Chairman of Unlocked

and former Brexit Party MEP. I'll be asking him about his take on the lockdown, which I think is easing, not

because the government wants it to ease, but because the people want it to ease. He's also going to

be talking about the report for the Commons Education Committee that came out late last night,

that white working class pupils are suffering more than any other group at the

ages of five, at the ages of 16 and at the ages of 18 as well. The committee found that the

phrase white privilege has never been more untrue. It's an absolute shocker, but of course,

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