Konstantin Kisin: Britain is on the brink, Reform is the only party that gets it
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4.1 • 705 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Camilla and Tim are joined by political commentator and co-founder of the ‘Triggernometry’ podcast, Konstantin Kisin.
Kisin, Russian by birth but a British citizen who’s lived in the UK for the last thirty years, does not hold back on why Britain is “increasingly irrelevant” in the global pecking order, whether it’s through the “industrial suicide” of net zero, the “weakness” of diversity or Keir Starmer’s “cosying up to China” instead of aligning more closely with Donald Trump.
He also explains why Reform offer the best hope of fixing Britain’s current malaise, despite potentially having to balance a diverse coalition of voters.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:09.8 | Broken Britain is on the brink, and where's our Prime Minister? |
| 0:13.1 | Sucking up to China. We're joined by podcast superstar Constantine Kisson. |
| 0:17.7 | We'll talk about what's gone wrong with the West and how to fix it. |
| 0:21.0 | Welcome to The Daily Tea with me, Camilla Tominy. And me, Tim Stanley. Konstantin Kissen, founder and co-host of the incredibly successful podcast Trigonometry. |
| 0:40.3 | Welcome to the Daily Tea. |
| 0:41.3 | As someone who was born in Russia, what do you think Britain gets right and what does it get wrong? |
| 0:47.3 | What I think we get right is I think we have a liberal democracy that we are clinging to as best we can and I think some of the values |
| 0:55.7 | that we have in this country historically speaking are really incredibly important. |
| 0:59.7 | Our attitudes to freedom, our attitude is used to the sanctity of the individual, our rejection |
| 1:04.6 | of collectivism in that extreme version of it. I think it's incredibly right and valuable. |
| 1:09.6 | Until recently our celebration of freedom of expression, I think also's incredibly right and valuable until recently our celebration of |
| 1:11.3 | freedom of expression, I think also very important. What we get wrong, I think, is we've decided |
| 1:16.5 | it's so important to be so liberal that we no longer have any sense of common identity. We've |
| 1:23.9 | rejected that idea entirely. We've said diversity is our strength, which is nonsense. |
| 1:27.9 | Diversity is not a strength, it's a weakness, |
| 1:30.1 | when taken to that extreme. |
| 1:32.1 | What I also think we get wrong, |
| 1:33.9 | when I say we, I think our political elites have got wrong |
| 1:37.0 | for a very long time, |
| 1:38.1 | and I'm sure we'll come to talk about geopolitics as well, |
| 1:40.9 | is we've sort of decided that strength is bad and weaknesses to be celebrated. |
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