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'''Calvin John Robinson''' (born 29 October 1985) is a far right British political commentator, broadcaster, and clergyman who is a deacon in the [[Free Church of England]]. Previously, Robinson had worked as a secondary school teacher and became a video games journalist.<ref>{{Cite web|title=GodisaGeek|url=https://www.godisageek.com/author/calvin-robinson/|url-status=live|access-date=7 January 2022|website=GodisaGeek.com|language=en-GB|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100918215056/http://www.godisageek.com:80/author/calvin-robinson/ |archive-date=2010-09-18 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.battleofideas.org.uk/2018/speaker/calvin-robinson/|title = Calvin Robinson – Battle of Ideas 2018}}</ref> He is a regular contributor to ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Calvin Robinson|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/calvin-robinson/|url-status=live|access-date=27 April 2021|website=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|language=en-GB|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200614025050/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/calvin-robinson/ |archive-date=2020-06-14 }}</ref> and the ''[[Daily Mail]]''.<ref name="byline">{{cite news |title=Who is Free Speech For? Network of Alt-Right Activists Target Anti-Racist Campaigner Over Tweet |url=https://bylinetimes.com/2021/03/01/who-is-free-speech-for-network-of-alt-right-activists-target-anti-racist-campaigner-over-tweet/ |work=[[Byline Times]] |date=1 March 2021}}</ref> As a commentator, Robinson has contributed to [[talkRADIO]] and [[GB News]].
'''Calvin John Robinson''' (born 29 October 1985) is a right wing British political commentator, broadcaster, and clergyman who is a deacon in the [[Free Church of England]]. Previously, Robinson had worked as a secondary school teacher and became a video games journalist.<ref>{{Cite web|title=GodisaGeek|url=https://www.godisageek.com/author/calvin-robinson/|url-status=live|access-date=7 January 2022|website=GodisaGeek.com|language=en-GB|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100918215056/http://www.godisageek.com:80/author/calvin-robinson/ |archive-date=2010-09-18 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.battleofideas.org.uk/2018/speaker/calvin-robinson/|title = Calvin Robinson – Battle of Ideas 2018}}</ref> He is a regular contributor to ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Calvin Robinson|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/calvin-robinson/|url-status=live|access-date=27 April 2021|website=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|language=en-GB|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200614025050/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/calvin-robinson/ |archive-date=2020-06-14 }}</ref> and the ''[[Daily Mail]]''.<ref name="byline">{{cite news |title=Who is Free Speech For? Network of Alt-Right Activists Target Anti-Racist Campaigner Over Tweet |url=https://bylinetimes.com/2021/03/01/who-is-free-speech-for-network-of-alt-right-activists-target-anti-racist-campaigner-over-tweet/ |work=[[Byline Times]] |date=1 March 2021}}</ref> As a commentator, Robinson has contributed to [[talkRADIO]] and [[GB News]].


==Early life==
==Early life==

Revision as of 21:08, 2 December 2022

The Reverend
Calvin Robinson
Born29 October 1985
Nottingham, England, UK
Occupations
Political partyBrexit Party (2019)
Conservative (before 2019)
Ordination history
History
Diaconal ordination
Ordained byPaul Hunt
Date25 June 2022
PlaceChrist Church, Harlesden
Source(s):[1]

Calvin John Robinson (born 29 October 1985) is a right wing British political commentator, broadcaster, and clergyman who is a deacon in the Free Church of England. Previously, Robinson had worked as a secondary school teacher and became a video games journalist.[2][3] He is a regular contributor to The Daily Telegraph[4] and the Daily Mail.[5] As a commentator, Robinson has contributed to talkRADIO and GB News.

Early life

Robinson grew up in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England and is of mixed-race heritage. His paternal grandparents were Jamaicans who immigrated to Mansfield as part of the Windrush generation.[6] He was educated at High Oakham Primary School and The Brunts Academy, before attending West Nottinghamshire College. He graduated with a degree in computer games design and programming.[7][8]

Career

Robinson was employed in the technology industry before training as a teacher. He taught computer science at the St Mary's and St John's Church of England School in Hendon where he became head of the IT department. In 2017, Robinson was featured in a recruitment advert encouraging people to become teachers.[9][8][10][11] He was a video games journalist and is also owner of the video games site God is a Geek.[12][13]

In May 2016 and 2018, Robinson sought election to Brent Council and Camden Council respectively, where he stood in the wards of Kilburn and Swiss Cottage for the Conservative Party.[14] He was the Brexit Party candidate in Broxtowe in 2019, but dropped out to support the Conservative candidate.[15]

Robinson has also held various positions in local news[16] and right-wing political organisations and campaigns, including Defund the BBC, Unite2Leave (a pro-Brexit tactical voting campaign) and Conservative Way Forward.[14] He has contributed to Black Lives Matter UK: An Anthology, a Henry Jackson Society report opposing Black Lives Matter and "hard-left identity politics".[17] Robinson has claimed that his commentary has made him the target of racial abuse.[11]

Having trained between 2020 and 2022 for ordination in the Church of England at St Stephen's House, Oxford, he was refused ordination by Jonathan Baker, the Bishop of Fulham, and chose to leave the church for the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON).[18] He was ordained as a deacon on 25 June 2022 in the Free Church of England.[1]

Robinson has also worked for talkRADIO and as a presenter on GB News, with, from late 2022, a regular slot on Sunday afternoons entitled "Calvin's Common Sense Crusade".[19][20][21]

Views

Robinson supports teaching and including black history and lessons concerning black people in schools, but argues it should be taught within the context of British history and not separated into a different category, and opposes critical race theory in British education.[22][23] He has also defended colonialism and the British Empire, has opposed reparations for slavery,[24] and expressed beliefs that white, Christian British people are being replaced.[25]

In July 2021, Robinson appeared in an interview on Channel 4 News with the singer and left-wing political activist Billy Bragg on the decision of England's football team players to "take the knee" in a protest against racism.[26] He said the action was "disgusting" and argued that, in taking the knee, the team was promoting "Black Lives Matter", which he described as "a neo-Marxist, anti-British, anti-family organisation".[27]

References

  1. ^ a b Calvin Robinson was Ordained to the Diaconate Free Church of England, 26 June 2022. Archived from the original on 3 July 2022. Retrieved 31 October 2022
  2. ^ "GodisaGeek". GodisaGeek.com. Archived from the original on 18 September 2010. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  3. ^ "Calvin Robinson – Battle of Ideas 2018".
  4. ^ "Calvin Robinson". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 14 June 2020. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
  5. ^ "Who is Free Speech For? Network of Alt-Right Activists Target Anti-Racist Campaigner Over Tweet". Byline Times. 1 March 2021.
  6. ^ Pearson, Allison (24 May 2022). "Institutionally racist? The Church of England has fallen victim to institutional cowardice". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
  7. ^ Topping, Andrew (23 February 2021). "Former Mansfield teacher on why he's been called a "race traitor" for his right-wing views". Nottingham Post. Retrieved 8 May 2021.
  8. ^ a b "Creating Pac-Man style games in Python". pocketmags.com. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  9. ^ "Calvin Robinson – Battle of Ideas 2018".
  10. ^ "Teacher becomes face of national recruitment campaign for teaching staff". times-series.co.uk. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  11. ^ a b "Former teacher called a 'race traitor' for his right-wing views". 23 February 2021.
  12. ^ "LDN Team". LDN.cm. Archived from the original on 15 August 2015. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  13. ^ "LDN Publishing". LDN.cm. Archived from the original on 15 August 2015. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
  14. ^ a b "About Calvin". Calvin Robinson. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  15. ^ Lee, Simeon (6 December 2019). "A call for student Brexiteers in the 'Battle of Broxtowe'". The Tab. Archived from the original on 15 December 2019. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  16. ^ Tsang, Amie (9 December 2018). "In Britain, a Team Effort to Help Local News Survive". The New York Times.
  17. ^ "Alt-Right Pseudoscience – Part 2: The Free Speech Union and Scientific Racism". Byline Times. 8 December 2020.
  18. ^ Heap, Emily-Jane (22 May 2022). "Black conservative trainee vicar 'blocked' from joining Church of England over 'anti-woke views'". The Telegraph.
  19. ^ Waterson, Jim (24 August 2021). "Andrew Neil outflanked by Nigel Farage in GB News culture war". The Guardian.
  20. ^ GB News's Calvin Robinson claims Conservative Party has been 'infiltrated by Marxist ideology'The National, 4 October 2022. Retrieved 30 October 2022
  21. ^ Common Sense Crusade with Calvin Robinson theglobalherald.com, 30 October 2022. Retrieved 30 October 2022
  22. ^ "Students need to know the harrowing truth': teachers on black history in the curriculum". TheGuardian.com. 3 October 2020. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  23. ^ Robinson, Calvin (October 2020). "Beware Critical Race Theory – the divisive ideology infiltrating school history lessons". The Telegraph. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  24. ^ "Student anger at slavery comments made by Union speakers". Varsity Online. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
  25. ^ Robinson, Calvin [@calvinrobinson] (30 November 2022). "Diversity is not always a strength. In this context, diversity means fewer white people, fewer Englishmen, and fewer Christians. There are those who would celebrate that. I would call them the racists. https://t.co/epPYeJLTHY" (Tweet). Retrieved 2 December 2022 – via Twitter.
  26. ^ "Euro 2020: Musician Billy Bragg and commentator Calvin Robinson debate England taking the knee ahead of final". Channel 4 News. 9 July 2021.
  27. ^ "England fans, how do you feel when you hear boos as players take a knee?". The Guardian. 10 June 2021.
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