By the standards of all human beings who have ever lived, we are far and away the luckiest people in history. For all the West s failings - terrible food, cold weather, and questionable politicians with funny hair to name a few - it has its upsides. The fragility of a functioning democracy is a fun toy to play with, whether in a disaster movie or on a microblogging platform. After Kisin refused to agree to those terms and chose not to perform, the UNICEF on Campus society at SOAS apologised and clarified they did not wish to "impose that guests would have to agree to anything they do not believe in". In terms of communicating the outcome, in the West governments make statements about their objectives that they know they will be judged on later.

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Over the past ten years, and especially since the shocks of Brexit and Trump in 2016, the West has been under relentless attack, not from China or Russia, but from within. And you’ve got to understand, in Russia, Western expansion isn’t perceived as a sort of minor inconvenience – the West is the enemy. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. One of the things that has really bothered me, particularly in the first few weeks of the conflict, is how I would watch something on Russian propaganda TV, and then a week later I would start to see that piece of propaganda popping up on Twitter from the people who don’t themselves watch Russian TV. Exploring race politics, free speech, immigration and more, Kisin argues that wrongdoing and guilt need not pervade how we feel about the West - and Britain - today, and that despite all its ups and downs, it remains one of the best places to live in the world.For instance, he explained the effort to “change the perception of reality for every American to such an extent that despite the abundance of information, no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community and their countries. The solution to the suffocating tendencies of ‘wokeism’ is to reinvigorate the Western tradition of both freedom of speech and the dignity and identity of the individual, both of which emerged uniquely in the West over thousands of years. A recent YouGov poll asked respondents “Is Britain something to be more ashamed of, proud of, neither? Episodes of Triggernometry regularly chalk up greater viewer numbers than Newsnight or other political shows on terrestrial TV.

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And I’m far from alone in thinking that – even Margaret Thatcher expressed similar concerns after the end of the Cold War. Putting aside the fact that Labour has yet to elect a leader of large gametes, let alone of non-white ethnic background, there is a familiar failure across the board to appreciate just how incredibly far we’ve come. Kisin has written for a number of publications including Quillette, The Spectator, The Daily Telegraph and Standpoint on issues relating to tech censorship, woke culture, comedy and culture war topics in the past but currently publishes articles on these subjects on his Substack. 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. Meanwhile, earlier this week, many on the British left were attempting to make capital over the supposed implausibility of the Conservatives electing a ‘leader of colour’, and the sad delusion of the brown and black MPs who still think they have a chance.And Kisin maintains that "we're having all sorts of difficult conversations that you're not seeing on TV, you're not hearing on the radio.

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Konstantin is a mate, so a straightforward review from me would not be appropriate, or entirely trustworthy. This also makes him alert to the warning signs that do deserve our attention – from proposed legislation like the Online Safety Bill to the police wanting to speak to you about a ‘non-crime hate incident’. Kisin describes the background hum of anxiety of living under a real police state, rather than one that just gets a bit heavy-handed if you cheek a rozzer after a couple of pints. Intellectuals, journalists, politicians, entertainers, and many educated elites within the West, have decried it mercilessly over the past ten years as inherently racist, sexist, misogynist, and homophobic.As he says at one point, “If there is one thing my Soviet childhood taught me, it’s that subscribing to someone else’s ideology will always inevitably mean having to suspend your own judgment about right and wrong to appease your tribe. And in terms of radio, television and newspapers, every single independent media outlet in Russia has been shut down. 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.