Nobody is ambivalent about Mike Graham. One of Britain’s most outspoken, one-of-a-kind presenters, he has shaped a 40-year career defined by never biting his tongue. His irreverent style has earned him a legion of loyal fans - Morning Glory, the breakfast show he presented for Talk, enjoyed some of the highest ratings on the channel.
Last November, in the midst of an alleged racism scandal, he was dismissed from the company.
Not one to sit still, today, he hosts The Mike Graham Show on YouTube and Substack.
Why did we invite him on?
We’ve had Graham on twice before, but not in the last three years. He was on the wish list anyway, but after his scandal at the end of last year and his recent turn to independent journalism, it seemed like the perfect moment to finally catch up.
Last November, a post was made to Mike’s Facebook page, contrasting a statue of Winston Churchill and Big Ben with an ethnically diverse Tube carriage.
Incendiary already, it came emblazoned with an even more divisive caption.
”Tell me we’re not f***ed by multicultural b***cks. ‘Why are we surrounded by non-white people? Just f*** off…”
Mike rabidly defends himself as ‘not a racist’. So what happened? We wanted to know.
But more than that, politics in Britain has shifted drastically in the three years since we last spoke to Mike. We wanted to get his uncensored, unflinching take on the state of the country in 2026.
What did we learn?
”I didn’t post it.
I was made aware of it on the Monday and I deleted it; it wasn’t there for very long. I got a call from my boss saying there’d been a complaint. I showed them and the head of HR that the image wasn’t in my cache of pictures and that the post wasn’t in my log… then they wanted to go further…”
In his words, Mike was totally willing to cooperate with the investigation. At first. Initially, he thought his word might be enough. Failing that, he would share his post history with Talk, and his name would be swiftly cleared.
But that wasn’t enough - they wanted to investigate everything.
It’s undoubtedly intrusive, but why not go along with it? His job was on the line and if this is what it took to put the matter to rest, wouldn’t it make sense to just take it on the chin? If Mike had nothing to hide, what did he have to fear?
