Konstantin Kisin

Konstantin Vadimovich Kisin (/ˈkɪsɪn/; Russian: Константин Вадимович Кисин; born 25 December 1982) is a British political commentator, author and co-host with Francis Foster of the Triggernometry podcast. He is also a former translator, conservative thinker, and stand-up comedian.

Kisin has written for a number of publications, including Quillette, The Spectator, The Daily Telegraph and Standpoint; he has also appeared on the panel of the BBC political programme Question Time and been interviewed on TV media such as the BBC, Sky News and GB News.

He speaks and writes on a wide variety of issues, often relating to tech censorship, comedy and culture war.

Kisin was the eldest of three children born in Moscow in the Soviet Union to parents Marina and Vadim. He has Russian, Ukrainian, Greek and Jewish ancestry. He has described himself as "ethnically, about 1/4 Jewish" and as "a not-very-practicing Orthodox Christian".

Konstantin's father Vadim served as Russian Federation's Deputy Minister for Cooperation with the CIS Countries from 1995 until his dismissal in 1996 over allegations of large-scale tax evasion between 1992 and 1995. According to Konstantin Kisin, his father was falsely accused and given a choice between imprisonment and disappearing.

At the age of 11, Konstantin Kisin was sent to the United Kingdom alone to attend Clifton College boarding school, where he was bullied for being a foreigner and not speaking English. He subsequently attended Edinburgh University, leaving around a year short of finishing a degree.

Kisin has worked as a Russian-English legal, financial and video game translator, and interpreter, and has regularly given talks about the business side of translation.

Since April 2018, Kisin has been co-presenter with Francis Foster of Triggernometry, a YouTube channel and podcast. The primary format of the show is the prerecorded interview; the show brands itself as holding "honest conversations with fascinating people", and has been described as "anti-woke" by The Times. Guests have included Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, Stephen Fry Sam Harris, Piers Morgan, Tommy Robinson and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. A 2023 interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson on the subject of "Have We Lost Trust in Science?" was widely reported upon both by other YouTube channels and the mainstream media because of Tyson's statements on the subject of transgender rights.