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to win the pulitzer prize -- colston whitehead, one of the first and only novelists to win the pulletsses back to back. -- pulitzer prize back to back. how did you do that? [laughter] i am a nominee myself. [cheers and applause] it's incredible. it is pretty impressive. from coming-of-age to crime to science fiction and even zombies, one of america's great storytellers, bringing a fresh perspective to the legacy of the original sin of slavery, elevating the nation's consciousness around truth and justice. we need someone to write about these things for that's walter isaacson. biographies on ben franklin, albert einstein, steve jobs and more and make real some of the most complex minds and our nation's history. we can better understand ourselves and our nation and the notion of possibility. anything is possible in america. an engineer, poet and cuban-american, richard blanco returned to a poem he wrote from the second inaugural of barack and me. a poem that says always one moon like a silent drum tapping at every roof top and every window of every county -- country. let me start this ov

edward colston was illegally pulled to the ground with the police standing by, sending shockwaves acrossy. but amidst all of this emerged , but amidst all of this emerged, the still small voice of calm. a story broke in the online blog de de , which suggested that the de de, which suggested that the guardian, the eminent, illustrious pious guardian of all newspapers founded by edward taylor, had links to the slave trade after an investigation conducted by, the owners of what used to be called the manchester guardian, the scott trust , the guardian, the scott trust, the website announced the apology for its founders links to slavery along with a fund of £10 million for quote restore of justice. good luck to them with that. well this great self—defeating monster that is this is finally pacman like eating itself . perhaps it should eating itself. perhaps it should counsel itself . i eating itself. perhaps it should counsel itself. i am eating itself. perhaps it should counsel itself . i am now joined counsel itself. i am now joined by paul staines , the man who by paul staines, the man who

if you remember when the colston four were on trial for what they did to the statue of colston during protest back in 2020, they were actually essentially let off of the hook . we've lots of . and we've seen lots of instances of criminal damage by groups like extinction rebellion stop oil and other radical progressive groups and they don't seem to really consistently justice. so i wouldn't necessarily want to call it i would like to think that actually they would receive quite a harsh sentence for this because it's quite clear that they put people's lives at risk. we've seen just oil before blocking , motorways stopping blocking, motorways stopping emergency service vehicles like ambulances fire trucks from being able to get to where they need to be, putting people's lives at risk. they clearly think that their cause is more important than human life as well as property and heritage, as you've seen with them pouring cans , soup over artwork. so i'd cans, soup over artwork. so i'd like to see them get a really tough, but i'm not completely given the history on this that they will actua