Three minutes after ten is the time. A very good morning indeed to you. It is, I think, often about the

collateral damage. That's the bit that they never tell you about. Yesterday's two-minute hate was ostensibly

directed at Tony Blair, but the collateral damage was, of course, Her Majesty, the Queen, because

people attacking his elevation to the order of the garter, or whatever it's called,

ended up unwittingly attacking the Queen's freedom to appoint whoever she wants to the highest officers in the land that she ostensibly rules.

Today's collateral damage is trial by jury.

The same blowhards and tabloid no-nothings are queuing up to attack the verdict of the so-called Colston

4 in court. A court they never went anywhere near and testimony they followed not a single

syllable of, but of course by attacking the results, by attacking the protesters who led the

assault upon that insidious metalwork, they end up unwittingly attacking trial by jury.

So next time someone invites you to join a two-minute hate, just have a little think about what

the collateral damage might involve. Because I'm sure if today you've been tempted to conclude

that this is a travesty of justice and we must all go and desecrate Karl Marx's grave as a form of redress, you don't really have a problem with trial by jury.

Some of you may even have voted to leave the European Union because you wanted to control our laws.

And now the people who encourage you to leave the European Union are encouraging you

to attack our judicial system. I think it goes right back to Magna Carta, doesn't it? Trial by jury.

So think about the collateral damage, because you always have a choice. We always have a choice.

Either respond atavistically, emotionally and viscerally to events without really taking any time to understand them,

just get angry or get cross or get frightened, or pause, or pause, learn, comprehend and respond.

And that's why today we turn the normal running order of the programme on its head to make room for a guest.

I'm delighted to introduce. David Olushoga is of course a professor of public history at the University of

Manchester. His most recent book, Black and British and Illustrated History is out now, and you'll know

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