Even as people reject British history, they're being incredibly British and isn't it the ultimately the most British thing

Is to be self-deprecating and say, well, we're terrible the only the only problem with that is you end up an orphan

If you say my family is rotten, you wouldn't believe what my family did about like 200 years

I want nothing to do with my family

Well, that's all very well

But you wind up an orphan and ultimately as I found when you buy a dog

You need someone to walk the dog for you and if you've written off the rest of the family

You've got no one to do it. So no wonder we're feeling so lonely

When we've when we isolate ourselves not any from people alive now, but people from the past

Hello and welcome to Trigonometry. I'm Francis Foster. I'm Constantine Kissinger

And this is a show for you if you want honest conversations with fascinating people

Our brilliant guest today is a historian leader writer for the telegraph and the author of whatever happened to tradition Tim Stanley

Welcome to Trigonometry. Hello

It's great to have you on that was a very short hello from you

Well, welcome on the show. I'm thrilled. This is the podcast. Is it when when my first when my last book came out about seven years ago

If you didn't get on the BBC or channel four your book basically didn't happen

And it's so fascinating that they're now all these different podcasts that you can go on and your book and read different people and new audiences

And this is one of my favorites. Well, before we get into talking about your book

Which we both really really enjoyed tell everybody a little bit about who you are

How are you where you are? What has been your journey through life that leads you to be sitting here rather than on the BBC?

I'm a cancerian

Which seems a good place to start that tells you everything you to know about me

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