Hello and welcome to Marshall Matters with me, Winston Marshall at The Spectator.

Today I'm joined by a friend Constantine Kisson. He's a comedian, co-host of the Trigonometry

show podcast with Francis Foster and author of the upcoming book, An Immigrants Love Letter to the West.

And Constantine, you are, well, firstly welcome.

Thank you for taking the time to speak with me.

No, it's great to speak with Winston.

I'm always happy to speak.

You born in Russia, moved here a long time ago, I think, 1995, and you have family in Ukraine.

Do you have family in Russia? I don't know, but I imagine this is a very emotional time for you,

and I can only imagine how difficult it's been for you to speak out, and yet you have.

You've been on unheard, question time, and various shows as well as your own speaking throughout.

Has your opinion changed over the course of

these 19 days? What's your journey been? Do you see things differently now to the beginning or

what's changed, do you think? Yeah, well, first of all, thanks for having me, Winston, and I appreciate

your kind words. I do have family in Russia. You know, I've got all sides of, all sort of

bits to my family. I've got family in Russia. My mom's Ukrainian. My dad's side is from a different part

of the former Soviet Union. I have lots of relatives in Ukraine. So my wife's Ukrainian. Her family

are pro-Russian speakers in Ukraine. Like, it's a very complicated thing.

So I've been trying to give people an honest view of what's been going on for the last few weeks.

And has my view changed?

Well, I don't know.

My view is, I don't like the word changed in this case because it kind of presupposes that things have remained the same and my view has

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