So, yeah, so, I remember when you said to me that you wanted to write a book and we were talking about it and you said that the title was going to be an immigrants that love letter to the west and that really struck me.

What, what, why did you call it that?

Well, first of all, in some ways the title is a bit of a compromise because I don't know if you saw the Sunday Time Review, which was broadly positive.

Yes, it was.

Well, one of the criticisms he made was, well, what is the west?

And actually, if it were up to me and it wasn't just about marketing as well, I would have called it an immigrants love letter to the anglosphere because that's really the countries that I'm talking about.

I'm not talking about France.

Yeah.

Right. Not least because the French have a very different conception of freedom and where it comes from and, you know, the partly the consequence of the French Revolution is they obsess about reason or rationality.

Whereas in the anglosphere, there's also an appreciation of tradition as a source of wisdom and a source of knowledge.

So it should be called, first of all, an immigrants love letter to the anglosphere.

And actually, one of the things that, one of the reasons I wanted to call it that was it he harkens back to Yuri Besmanov, who I showed you some videos of, if you remember.

Yes.

Which were very powerful. It was a KGB defector, which talked about the way the Soviet Union was demoralizing and dividing western societies, particularly the American society.

And he wrote a book called, I love letter to America.

So I wanted to reference that with the book.

And my book is very much making the point that he was making in his own time, which is,

you can mess around with all of the crap that you and I spend every week discussing on trigonometry.

All of this division and all this cultural bollocks and all of this sort of in naval gazing and obsessing about internal stuff that doesn't really matter.

You can do it as long as you don't have enemies, as long as you don't have people who are coming, as long as you don't have people who are willing to challenge that.

And I've been saying to you, and to be fair to you, you're coming from outside the west somewhat and being visiting countries and outside the west yourself, you know this.

The rest of the world isn't like the west.

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