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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rowena Mason Whitehall editor

Konstantin Kisin: anti-woke libertarian who reluctantly calls himself ‘right wing’

Konstantin Kisin head and shoulders
Konstantin Kisin: ‘The choice is between civilisation and people who think men can give birth. Everything else is fluff.’ Photograph: S Meddle/ITV/Shutterstock

Konstantin Kisin has until this week been best known as a libertarian, pro-free speech independent podcaster, and for a viral appearance at the Oxford Union arguing that “woke culture has gone too far”.

His profile has suddenly risen, however, after hosting the Conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch, on his podcast, and arguing in an episode with Fraser Nelson, the former editor of the Spectator, that Rishi Sunak was not English owing to his “brown Hindu” background – triggering criticism on social media.

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