An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West

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So the first thing people should know is that even in peacetime, prior to this invasion, 75 to 80 per cent of people in Russia got their information exclusively from television.

The war in Ukraine is not a Western plot - spiked

But they have adopted an almost conspiratorial way of seeing the world – it’s not really critical thinking, it’s cynical thinking – and they disbelieve everything about the narrative that we are being given on Ukraine. In Russia, people thought it was great – our commander-in-chief tricked the evil enemy into allowing us a tactical advantage.

Kisin was born in Russia and immigrated to England on his own as a child of eleven; sent there by his parents who knew his life would be much better there than in newly post-Soviet Russia. When I stepped down from public leadership in 2005 I did so with a clear and optimistic vision of where this country was headed. They dismiss the Ukraine conflict as a distraction, another way to galvanise the ‘dumb public’ now that Covid is fading away. He claims that An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West will deliver "truth bombs", particularly on the controversial issue of slavery and its legacy.

The West is worth saving - spiked

Not least the freedom of speech and thought which Kisin had not experienced in the Soviet Union but had at least expected to find in the West. Asking her how they ended up in these prison camps, what they did wrong, how they reacted to it, how they conducted themselves . I’ve been critical of NATO for a very long time, including its interventions in the Middle East and the former Yugoslavia. There is an old joke, from the days when one was allowed to joke about such things, that the difference between straight and gay is about three pints.Now an award-winning performer, he co-presents the popular YouTube series TRIGGERnometry alongside Francis Foster. He organises his book around a number of key themes, including chapters on the ways in which language can be used to conceal truth and on why we need journalists, not activists.