Those who read my blogs will know there is a small army of unlikely heroes I admire who engage with the culture and often express views that powerful people deem as unacceptable and thus pay the price.

One such person who has recently come onto my radar is Calvin Robinson. According to Wikipedia: “Calvin John Robinson (born 29 October 1985) is a British Old Catholic cleric, conservative political commentator, writer and broadcaster. Since 2023, he has been a priest in the Nordic Catholic Church, an Old Catholic denomination of high church Lutheran patrimony; from 2022 until his priestly ordination, he had been a deacon in the Free Church of England, a conservative Anglican realignment denomination.”

As is often the case when I blog on a subject, it is as a result of various events conspiring and thoughts going through my mind on matters of interest. It happened that a few days back I was speaking with a friend who the day before had attended the sort of protest rally in London you don’t get to hear about on the news when so called far right racists peacefully protested their concerns about what is going on the country. Here my friend met Calvin and they had a brief but positive chat. Then a little after that someone shared with me a half hour video where Calvin presented some home truths along with reasons he gave for leaving Britain and I was so taken with what he said that I shared it on my Facebook page, with one friend making a typical for him comment: “He can’t go too soon. We do not want people like this to be encouraging the thugs who came last week to try to take over our streets. It was because of the good people who came and occupied in peace that stopped these far right thugs. We must be concerned about this”.

There is no shortage of Calvin related stuff on the Internet, where in recent years he has been afforded a platform, including alternative and even mainstream media, for expounding his views, which he does with considerable skill and clarity. Might I suggest in the interests of cutting to the chase and hearing from the horses mouth what gets him so worked up that, before readers read about my own take, they listen to the following two half-hour interviews covering the essence of his main concerns and, if you want more on Calvin’s fascinating journey, a third two-hour interview:

1. Calvin Robinson’s Final Interview Before Leaving the UK. Are We Prepared to Fight for Britain? (see here)
2. Calvin Robinson: Christians TOLERATING Evil & the PUSH Toward Secularism | Eric Metaxas (see here)
3. SILENCED with Tommy Robinson – Father Calvin Robinson (see here)

What strikes my sense of humour/irony is that in ecclesiological terms me and Calvin are poles apart – he is High Church and me Low Church. Yet theologically we are more or less on the same page. Moreover, many in my own church camp don’t see/get what me and Calvin see/get when it comes to understanding that which is important going in the world. What he sees and gets pretty much sums up what is taking place in today’s culture wars, the direction as a nation (and a lot of the world) is going, the differing responses of citizens of the country, notably those in power and a directionless church, and how those who are awake and concerned over what is happening might best respond.  A couple of days ago, I blogged about Russell Brand and while these two chaps approaches on the subject of what is really going on in the world are from quite different angles, they are both essentially correct and are members of the growing hero brigade that go against the “Unholy Trinity” and “the Narrative” I am writing about a lot these days, and they are also prepared to pay the price (vilification and worse) for doing so.

My response to my objecting Facebook friend was “more concerned about your perception of what is really going on my friend. Sadly, if you can believe the lies about the people who reject the far right, racist narrative being pushed atm I cannot believe you when you go on about another Israel atrocity”. I am pretty sure that along with my own thinking (about which I have expounded on in some of my recent blogs) both my objecting Facebook friend and Calvin Robinson would have been very conscious of a series of events that took place early last month when three children were murdered in Southport, with the attacker being thought by some at the time to be a recent Muslim immigrant (which later turned out not to be so).

All this led to attacks on a local mosque followed by demonstrations and protests objecting against Britain’s perceived two tier, wrong priority policing and Britain letting in too many foreign immigrants that do not share perceived British values (these were already being taken place prior to the attacks, invariably peaceful and under reported) and a respect for the Law on one hand and by those objecting to far right racists on the other. Fuel was added to the fire when the British Prime Minister, while rightly condemning violence toward racial and religious minorities etc., also accused the peaceful majority of those protesting about the direction Britain is going, as being far right racists and promising to go after them, but at the same time ignoring the valid concerns of many, much of which Calvin Robinson has eloquently articulated (e.g. see above).

I am not here as a spokesperson for Robinson (where Calvin or Tommy, who features in the third of my video shares). I hear what they say and thank them for it even if I don’t agree entirely. The two Robinsons, along with Russell Brand (see here), as well as with several other awakened wonders, I respect because they see a lot of what is happening and have the balls to call it out and try to do something about it. I expect there will be many that think like my Facebook friend but also many who think like me and Calvin, not brave or confident enough to say what they do think. Like Calvin, I see the country going in a wrong direction, already bad under Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives and threatens to be a whole lot worse under Labour led by Keir Starmer, and is a contributory factor behind him leaving Britain. I suspect there may be a lot we won’t agree on,  e.g. our supposed glorious Christian past and seeing the British Royal family in a positive light. I suspect Calvin has not gone down the same conspiracy theorist rabbit holes that I have so may not see planet earth as being run by a tiny, evil cabal who are intent on depopulation and enslaving those who are left, like I do.

I was intrigued that he is spokesman for UKIP (which I thought had all but died) and scathingly unsympathetic toward Nigel Farage and his Reform Party and not giving the other alternatives to the lost their way Conservatives, e.g. the Heritage Party, much thought it seems.  But if we are talking politics, if you discount Reform UK along with LibDems and Greens (who are probably beholden to the very wokeism Calvin so much objects to), the question is begged: where is there an opposition to challenge a Labour Party that under Starmer is beholden to cultural Marxism, woke ideology, critical race theory, the globalism of the UN, WEF, WHO etc., fighting wars such as in Ukraine we do best to avoid, financial collapse and digital ids, syncretistic religion where G(g)od is whatever you want to make him/it when faced with the likelihood of Islam taking over and an inevitable wrong response to the next false flag or black swan even?

Calvin Robinson is right – it is not enough to see all the above, agree and then do nothing about it. We all need to fight the good fight although the question is begged – how etc.? He is also right that the only hope for this country (the UK), and also the world, which is going downhill in so many ways fast, is we must turn to God. As for me, I will continue to do my party piece and say it as I see it. With the way the UK seems to be going, both legislatively and the way law is implemented, along with the increasing censorship of objecting voices (such as Mr. Starmer’s far right extremist/racists) that I touch on in recent blogs (e.g. see here), it doesn’t look good, although as an old dear, seen by some to be on my way out, I might be left alone (depending on the threat I raise for them in power).

I would say to Calvin, if we ever get to meet – firstly, thank you for speaking out on these important issues followed by best wishes in your future endeavours. I would remind him that we are in a war: good versus evil, truth versus error and God versus Satan, and that there will be many including those in the unlikely category, on the right side we need to ally with and many more perturbed by what they see going on, looking for solutions, maybe in the wrong areas. As for me, I cannot shut up given the stakes are so high and what I see happening is as clear as day even if others fail to see so. I must encourage those like Calvin Robinson who make use of the platforms presented to them. But more than anything I want to present folk with the one glorious message – the Gospel of Christ.