Konstantin Kisin

Lionel, fantastic to have you back on.

Congratulations on A Better Life.

I hope it does very well, which I'm sure it will do.

Thanks for coming back on.

We're going to ask you a bunch of questions from our supporters on Substack in a second.

But before we do, what is the one thing that we're still not talking about that we should be?

Well, I look forward to reading your next book, which in no doubt will be about water.

Thanks for coming on.

Head on over to triggerpod.co.uk where Lionel's going to answer your questions.

If you were a young person currently seeing what you're seeing and you had the opportunity to move and settle down in some other country, what would be your top picks of sane countries in the world?

The battle over the upcoming by-election in Gorton and Denton has so far been largely uneventful. The Labour Party, which holds the seat, looks set to lose it, as you'd expect. Their leader has, after all, the worst personal satisfaction ratings of any British prime minister since records began. Reform looks set to do well, which with immigration dominating the political conversation is also unsurprising. The Greens are also performing strongly and, like reform, may even win the seat, for reasons I explained in my last video. So far, so predictable.

Mutta sitten Green Candidate Hanna-Spencernin video alkoi käydä rauhoja. Klippi itse asiassa ei ole yllättävää. Se ei edes ole kuitenkaan tarpeeksi keskustella, jos se ei ole yksi yksinkertainen asia. Se on lähettänyt täysin urduksi. Minä olen Hanna-Spencerni.

Bills are increasing and rents are taking us out of homes. Now you might be thinking, look how right wing Konstantin has become. Why does anyone care whether a few unrepresentative areas have a lot of people from a particular community living there? After all, this tends to happen when groups of people move from country to country. People are not atomized individuals, especially in more traditional societies.

British settlers who moved to the new world didn't move in groups of three either. A lot of immigration happens in clusters. It's why so many big cities have a Chinatown. I'm not against Chinatowns. Then again, I've never seen a British politician campaigning in Chinese. I'm aware, as I say this, that some American viewers might find it strange that I take issue with this.

After all, there are many parts of the US where you'll get by just as easily with Spanish as you will with English. There's a big difference between Britain and America, as a British-born Pakistani Uber driver once explained to me in Los Angeles. British people aren't racist, he said. It's just space.

Britain is a small country. America is a big country. When you move to America, you're not taking someone else's space. This reflects in the linguistic differences too. When you become an American citizen, you're called a first generation American. When you become a British citizen, you're a first generation immigrant.

En välttämättä. Se on se, mitä kutsun itseäni, koska se on kulttuurinen ero Yhdysvalloissa ja Amerikassa. Tämä ero on osallistunut jotain toisestaan. Amerikka on pohjautunut itsenäisyyden ja vaihtanut sen kolonialaisista eri puolilla Eurooppaa ja myöhemmin ihmisistä koko maailman.

With the exception of the people brought there against their will, they all effectively took the land from someone else. Whether your ancestors did the initial taking or moved there more recently, you still benefit from that land being taken by living on it. The native population of North America is dwarfed by the more recent arrivals. I say more recent and not recent, because when it comes to land, someone always took it from someone else.

With the exception of Australian aboriginals, there are no people in the world who can claim they were the first modern humans to settle on land they currently occupy outside a handful of tiny, isolated island communities. Everyone else took the land they currently live on from someone else.

Ja koska amerikkojen on yhteinen tunne olevansa historiallisesti nykyisiä tulevaisuudet, heidän on vain niin vaikea välttämättä muistaa muiden ihmisten amerikkojen unelmansa, joita heidän vanhemmat katsoivat, vaikka he tekevät sen legaattisesti. Kuten jo kertoisin aiemmin, Britain oli hyvin etnillinen ja kulttuurillinen homogeeninen yhteiskunta.