There has been remarkably little comment, where one might expect to see such comment, on the recent sacking of Mike Graham from TalkTV. Mike Graham was the channel’s anchorman, most recently presenting the early morning show Morning Glory. He was a courageous and experienced journalist who was not afraid to express his opinions and to have outspoken ‘untouchables’ on his shows, giving them the space to express their views.
During the covid years he entertained Scottish journalist, TV personality and archaeologist Neil Oliver and has consistently entertained veteran journalist Peter Hitchens on his shows. Both Oliver and Hitchens saw through the massive con that was the so-called Covid-19 pandemic. Along with very few other public figures such as journalist Toby Young and retired Supreme Court judge Lord Jonathan Sumption, they spoke out and suffered as a result.
Graham also presented Plank of The Week on TalkTV. Along with another stalwart of TalkTV, Kevin O’Sullivan, he co-presented the hilarious, expletive-laden and incisive The Thought Police. This last venture was a private initiative, which was not hosted by TalkTV.
The downfall of Mike Graham is another fine example of someone being sacrificed on the altar of public opinion by an overly concerned corporation, for expressing the bleeding obvious. TalkTV is owned by News UK. Graham allegedly posted on Facebook his concern at the changing face of the United Kingdom. Despite my best efforts to keep the lawyers off our backs and TNC on the road, the editor has insisted on sharing the contents of the post (please direct lawsuits to him!):
“Compare and contrast. Tell me we’re not fucked by multicultural bollocks. Why are we surrounded by non-white people? Just fuck off…”
So this is what Mike Graham lost his job for posting?
This does not even sound like Mike. And this would be a silly post since the London tube is full of tourists.
He says his FB account was hacked. In a week where many accounts were hacked.
Talk Radio has issues. Mike was… pic.twitter.com/RP6YGEIfCp
— Miss Jo (@therealmissjo) November 13, 2025
Graham subsequently deleted the posting, and claimed that his account had been hacked.
He was immediately suspended by TalkTV and, for not cooperating with their inquiry into the alleged hacking, he was eventually dismissed. The implication is that he was not telling the truth. We will never know, unless Mike Graham owns up at some point. But I am open to the possibility that he refused to cooperate with an organisation that had already suspended him – the likelihood of being sacked after such suspensions regardless of the outcome is always high – and decided to go his own way.
His enforced departure leaves TalkTV, which has struggled to survive, devoid of an experienced and respected journalist and an excellent, popular and amusing presenter. I would regard this as their funeral. They evolved from TalkRadio to TalkTV, having a mainstream channel, but had to retreat to being a YouTube channel after advertising revenue slumped and GB News evolved. After a shaky start, GB News has proved to be the stronger channel.
This leaves TalkTV with the aggressive motor-mouth Julia Hartley-Brewer, to whom it fell to announce Graham’s dismissal, and a few other notables such as Jeremy Kyle and the above mentioned Kevin O’Sullivan. Another notable presenter is comedian Mark Dolan. To my knowledge, none has expressed a shred of support for Mike Graham or any regret at his departure. The Thought Police has not been broadcast since the suspension of Graham and, given the speed with which Kevin O’Sullivan filled Graham’s slot at Plank of The Week, I suspect – without verification – that they are no longer friends.
TalkTV describes itself as ‘The Home of Common Sense’ (the irony). Mike Graham has started a new Substack and his own YouTube channel which he describes as the ‘new home of common sense.’ I imagine, given the success of the YouTube channels of other refugees from TalkTV and GB News (not exactly squeaky clean in this regard) such as Dan Wootton – who has expressed his support for Mike Graham – that this new channel will do well.
Mike Graham may well look back on his dismissal from TalkTV as a liberation rather than a loss. The channel has shed yet another voice of individuality in favour of safer, blander hands. In doing so it has hastened its own slide into irrelevance. Audiences are not stupid; they know when authenticity has left the building. Graham will thrive precisely because he speaks without fear, and because audiences increasingly seek out those who refuse to bow before the approved script. If TalkTV wishes to be the ‘home of common sense’, it might first start exercising some.
Roger Watson is a retired academic, editor and writer. He is a columnist with Unity News Network and writes regularly for a range of conservative journals including The Salisbury Review and The European Conservative. He has travelled and worked extensively in the Far East and the Middle East. He lives in Kingston upon Hull, UK.
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The opening words of the above article reflect my own amazement that the sacking of Mike Graham has drawn little to no comment, including, until today, on this blog. I LOVED Mike’s shows, which, due to the nature of my retirement schedule, I tended only to hear when I was driving. I keep tuned into TalkTV but not for much longer – a re-jigging of my car radio list is on my “to do” list since it looks like Mike won’t be back at Talk.
It also amazes me that there is very little coverage in the UK of the scandal of Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson, two American commentators who are allowed to spew their dislike/hatred of Israel and Jews on the air without any dire consequences from those who run the internet.
Anyway, here in the UK, I think we just need to accept the cancel culture which has seen off Mike Graham, as we need to accept the constant stream of illegal migrants, with legal immigration set in stone, it seems. Mike’s outspokenness and brilliant sense of humour will be sadly missed, and I’m really quite shocked (but not surprised) that his colleagues are not speaking out about this injustice. Their day will come – Kevin Sullivan is outspoken and Kyle,(I’m not a fan) can be, as well, but he is also very crude so that should save him…
Enjoyed the article – great to have a chance to express support for Mike Graham.
The “Altar of Public Opinion” that Roger mentions should be more accurately called the Font of Massive Lies aka the Narrative. Anyone who crosses swords with the purveyors of this abject fiction can expect to be swamped with attacks from the defenders of this true conspiracy.
Never heard of him, but still find the whole circumstances of his sacking fishy. At least no grovelling insincere apology has been published. Interesting that none of his other high profile ‘far-right’ colleagues have dared to comment – this I find far more concerning.