“An immigrant’s love letter to the west”

I’ve just finished this book. It’s good and well worth a read. A quick, breezy, page-turner, making strong points against the “ingrate class”, people who know nothing of how good it is in the west, for all its failings, yet slam and smear it for all a sorts of imagined failings.

Konstantin Kisin is a man of the Left, a stand-up comedian. He became famous — infamous? — when he refused to sign a contract for a gig that required him not to offend the audience. As he says, comedy is (often) about offence. He co-hosts the Triggernometry podcast, which I also recommend