November 26, 2024

Calvin Robinson: the anti-woke cleric too reactionary for GB News

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Dressed in full clerical garb and posed solemnly in front of a Union Jack, a crusader helmet, an icon of the Virgin Mary and a photograph of the late Queen, the Rev Calvin Robinson broke the bad news to the faithful. “I have just been dismissed from my role at GB News”, he announced in a video posted to Twitter/X on October 4. “I’m sorry. I’m in shock.” His fans were shocked too. Calvin’s Common Sense Crusade was one of the channel’s most popular shows. And Robinson himself, a 37-year-old clergyman from a mixed-race background in Mansfield, was the reactionary right’s most recognisable and incendiary new star. Also, its weirdest.

“Fornication is a sin,” he instructed his viewers during a typical episode. “Sex outside marriage

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