Calvin Robinson

Calvin Robinson Calvin ROBINSON Companies House is a far right commentator and defrocked evangelical priestA Statement on Calvin Robinson by Jonathan Munn (30 January 2025) The Anglican Catholic Church best known for his weekly, conspiratorial, anti-immigrant screed, Calvin’s Common Sense Crusade.CASE FILE: Calvin Robinson Hope Not Hate He has been described as a "turbulent priest" and latest in a "line of Jeremiahs," whose polemical style echoes that of US "televangelists".Stephen Bates, How Calvin Robinson threw in his lot with the polemicists, Prospect Magazine, 10 October 2023. He has also been criticized for his ideological relationship to Nazism.https://religionnews.com/2025/01/30/anglican-priest-calvin-robinson-defrocked-over-nazi-like-salute/
==Geek to Nazi pipeline==
===In the beginning...===
Robinson, who describes his background as "half English, half Afro-Caribbean, one hundred per cent British,"Calvin Robinson Substack was born and raised in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire,Former Mansfield teacher on why he's been called a 'race traitor' for his right wing views by Andrew Topping (23 Febuary 2021) Nottinghamshire Live where his paternal grandparents had immigrated to from Jamaica as part of the Allison Pearson, Institutionally racist? The Church of England has fallen victim to institutional cowardice. The Telegraph, 24 May 2022. He completed an undergraduate degree in computer game design and programming at the University of Westminster, and, if his own self-penned hagiography is to be believed, spent seven years working in the tech industryCalvin Robinson – Head of Research Parliament Street as a web designer and project manager.The Team LDN.CM 
The God is a Geek (GiaG) website, the most successful venture to come out of the software consultancy and supply company LDN.CM (originally named SRC London LTD), which Robinson co-founded with Rukshan "Ruk" Cooray Rukshan COORAY Companies House in 2009,LDN.CM LIMITED Companies House launched his media career by publishing his video games journalism until 2019, when LDN.CM was disolved and he moved on to other things.Calvin Robinson God is a Geek The GiaG website continued with "zero input" from its "estranged owner" until a unanamous decision by the editorial team to cease publication on January 30, 2025, and restart "under a new banner," with the public statement:Official statement from the Editorial Team God is a Geek 
Retraining as a teacher, following the 2014 inclusion of coding in the national curriculum, Robinson was appointed department head in computing science and later vice principal at St Mary's and St John's Church of England School in Hendon, London.Rhys Handley, St Mary's and St John's CE school in Hendon recruits famous YouTube users to teach internet safety to pupils. Barnet Borough Times, 7th February 2017.Alex Alley, St Mary's and St John's CE School's choir wows audience for vicar's send off. Barnet Borough Times, 11th May 2018. He simultaneously served in a variety of roles as a Tory campaigner, standing unsuccessfully to be a local councilor at the 2016 Brent local by-election and the 2018 Camden local election,Calvin Robinson. Who Can I Vote For?. and becoming the face of a government's I Chose to Teach campaign to encourage recruitment into teaching.Jenny Desborough, Teacher becomes face of national recruitment campaign for teaching staff. Barnet Borough Times, 26th June 2017. Thanks to the recognition he got from this campaign, a screed he quickly penned for Conservatives for Liberty claiming schools "brainwash" children "into a lefty way of thinking" that believes "Labour = Good, Tory = Evil," was splashed across the Tory press.Alex Matthews, Schools 'brainwashing' pupils to see Tories as 'evil' and support Labour, says teacher who fronted Department for Education recruitment drive. Daily Mail, 14 July 2017.Teacher poster boy chosen by Dept of Education says children are taught 'Tories are evil’. Daily Express, 14 July 2017.Camilla Turner, Teacher who became face of Government recruitment drive warns that children are subjected to 'left-wing brainwashing' in classroom. The Telegraph, 14 July 2017.Emma Lake, LEFT IN THE CLASSROOM: Are your kids being BRAINWASHED into supporting Labour? Top teacher claims children are secretly taught from ‘a very young age’ that Tories are ‘evil’. The Sun, 15 July 2017.Nicola Woolcock, Teachers ‘indoctrinating’ children to be left-wing. The Times, 15 July 2017.Jack Montgomery, Star Teacher: Schools Are Subjecting Pupils to ‘Left-Wing Brainwashing’. Breitbart, 15 July 2017.
As a self-confessed "swivel-eyed Brexit loon,"Calvin Robinson, ‘I’m the only swivel-eyed Brexit loon in the staffroom’, TES Magazine, 22 December 2019. Robinson founded the Eurosceptic tactical voting website Vote2Leave,Sam Lister, BREXIT on the BRINK: Leavers urged to use tactical voting site or ‘we lose it ALL’, Daily Express, 3 December 2019. and was selected to stand against Change UK candidate and so-called "remainer-in-chief" as the Brexit Party candidate for Broxtowe in the 2019 United Kingdom general election, earning such responses from his teaching colleagues as “Failed narcissist,” “Out of touch with the common folk,” “Are you on drugs?,” and “TWAT!” He was, nonetheless, one of the 317 candidates stood down to help the Tories to victory.
Further appointments for Robinson at this time included serving as a school governor and trustee of the in Wembley, London,Calvin ROBINSON Companies House which under headmistress has been dubbed the "strictest school in Britain" and has close ties to and Michael Gove;Josiah Mortimer and Max Colbert,Braverman and Birbalsingh: The Close Tory Ties of the Right Wing’s Beloved ‘Strictest Headmistress’ Byline Times, 11 July 2023. education sub-committee board member for the from which he was dismissed after speaking at a Turning Point UK anti-drag queen story hour protest;Emily Chudy, GB News host Calvin Robinson paid damages after job dismissal over anti-drag protests The Pink News, 2 October 2023. and Senior Fellow responsible for Education Policy at influential right-wing think tank Calvin Robinson – Senior Fellow, Education and History Matters Project Policy Exchange
===Just following orders...===
Robinson studied theology at St Stephen's House, Oxford, from 2020 to 2022, and was, he claims, on his way to being ordained a Church of England deacon, until his Twitter account was discovered by Anglican bishop Rob Wickham and concerns were raised about his "libertarian anti-woke, anti-identity politics, Covid-sceptical" agenda.Emily-Jane Heap, Black conservative trainee vicar ‘blocked’ from joining Church of England over ‘anti-woke views’, The Telegraph, 22 May 2022 When it was annouced that a suitable curacie could not be found for him, Robinson defected to the which ordained him and appointed him to Christ Church in Harlesden, London.
GB News began broadcast of the relatively innocuous sounding Robinson hosted Sunday afternoon current affairs chat and opinions show, Calvin's Common Sense Crusade in 2021, with its stated "mission to return common sense and religious teachings to the debate."Andrew Brown, Candid Calvin, Prospect Magazine, 27 March 2024.Alan Rusbridger, Church and hate: Meet Britain’s conspiracy theorist cleric, Prospect Magazine, 29 March 2024. The show was, however, cancelled after less than two years when Robinson was sacked for voicing his support for Laurence Fox and who had been simmilarly dissmissed after Fox launched into an unchallenged misogynistic tirade about journalist Ava Evans on GB News' show Dan Wootton Tonight. Robinson subsequently took his Common Sense Crusade to Carl Benjamin's Lotus Eaters platform, and started a cringe podcast with Fox called Fox and Father.
The Free Church of England released Robinson from his deaconship in late 2023, so that he could be ordained into the priesthood of the Calvin Robinson Ordained to the Priesthood, Nordic Catholic Church, 16 November 2023. Meanwhile, the once mighty UK Independence Party (UKIP) marked it's continuing slide into far-right irrelevence under the "temporary leadership" of Turning Point UK CEO and Christian fanatic by appointing Robinson as its Lead Spokesperson on Everything.UKIP opens door to Yaxley-Lennon and anti-Islam, Christian crusade, Searchlight, 14 August 2024.
Proud Brit, fanatical anti-immigration activist and newly appointed UKIP spokesperson Calvin Robinson announced in summer 2024 that no longer feeling safe in London he was leaving behind Keir Starmer’s “dark Satanic Mills” to follow his calling to a parish "elsewhere".Liam O'Dell, Ukip spokesperson Calvin Robinson to leave UK, correctly predicts critics will 'rejoice', indy100, 30 August 2024. The following month Robinson was incardinated as the new Priest of St Paul’s Anglican Catholic Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Almost immediately after arriving, he was already ingratiating himself into Trump circles.‘Batshit preacher’ to be trumped by Farage?, Searchlight, 12 November 2024. Somewhat predictably, his American mission was not to last long...
Speaking at the National Pro-Life Summit in Washington, D.C., on January 25, 2025, concluded his conspiratorial, anti-immigrant screed with: Which he followed up by mimicking the Elon Musk had given at the five days earlier. Pinned to his Xitter account, this was brought to the attention of the (ACC), which responded: 
==See also==
*Father Coughlin — Another priest with far-right sympathies.
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