Thank you.

it's good to see all of you out here this evening for the launch of this book and I think before I start it would be good to do an acknowledgement and that acknowledgement goes to the Royal Mail Next Delivery Service which if it was not for them this book launch would not be happening tonight um When Daniel and I started this project, we started it about two years ago, just over two years ago, actually.

And it was a different world back then.

Joe Biden was still president.

Rishi Sunak was prime minister.

Luke Coyle was just about to do the school's composition.

Daniel had yet to be president.

Yeah, you're talking about the likes of