An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West

Product Information

Episodes of Triggernometry regularly chalk up greater viewer numbers than Newsnight or other political shows on terrestrial TV. Konstantin Kisin is a prominent British comedian, social commentator, and podcaster, who has stood up to the progressive cancel mob in his own field of comedy and lived, indeed, thrived to tell the tale.

Konstantin Kisin Books - Hachette Australia Konstantin Kisin Books - Hachette Australia

When the safe-space row comedian WAS prepared to watch what he said: News 2018: Chortle: The UK Comedy Guide". There was a specific effort by the KGB to engage in psychological warfare of a seemingly subtle kind.Konstantin Kisin is a young stand-up comedian and co-host of the popular online talk-show Triggernometry. I don’t think there’s going to be that much of a difficulty in selling what might happen in Ukraine. Ukraine is a piece of land that has always been between two big warring empires of one kind or another, whether that was the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Russian Empire, or Hitler’s Germany and the Soviet Union. Driven by the desire to be clear in our opposition to racism, we turned a blind eye as protestors abused and injured police officers, chasing them around the streets of London with impunity.

Konstantin Kisin, Author at The Spectator Konstantin Kisin, Author at The Spectator

After all, if an immigrant can't publicly profess their appreciation for this country, who can 224 pp. For all the West's failings - terrible food, cold weather, and questionable politicians with funny hair to name a few - it has its upsides. Much the same goes for ‘inclusivity’, which is the term most often used to justify excluding people for holding the wrong views. Not least because they are breaking the stranglehold that traditional media used to have on the business of ideas.But I think some people, particularly John Mearsheimer and others, are pushing these narratives beyond where they can credibly go. A recent YouGov poll asked respondents “Is Britain something to be more ashamed of, proud of, neither? O’Neill: I have often found myself at loggerheads on the Ukraine question with the kind of people who would consider themselves to be on our side – people who would be critical of wokeness and the European Union and in favour of freedom of speech.

Konstantin Kisin books and biography | Waterstones Konstantin Kisin books and biography | Waterstones

For instance, one narrative is that Russia and Ukraine were living peacefully and happily together since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Likening the tone of his memoir to that of his tweets, the comic, who co-hosts the YouTube channel and podcast Triggernometry with fellow comedian Francis Foster, told BCG: "It's a combination of commentary, humour and pisstaking.His perspective – that of someone born into poverty and oppression in Soviet Russia, his grandmother born in a gulag, his great-grandfather literally a slave – is what lends the message authority. And if that isn’t quite a love letter to the West, well, we’ve been in a stable relationship for over 50 years now and, you know, things do cool slightly.