Church and hate: Meet Britain’s biggest conspiracy theorist cleric

Calvin Robinson was sacked from GB News after showing solidarity with his fellow presenters Laurence Fox and Dan Wootton, writes Alan Rusbridger. He can now spread his unpleasant rhetoric about ‘Mohammedans’ and ‘sacramental sodomy’ on the unregulated internet – but why was he ever picked to be a presenter on a regulated news channel?

Robinson believes that ‘Mohammedans’, as he calls them, are trying to take over this country (Alamy/PA)

A couple of weeks ago, at the start of Ramadan, the Archbishop of Canterbury posted a message on Twitter/X wishing all Muslims peace and joy, and giving thanks for the great contribution of Muslims to our society.

Who could possibly be against that? Step forward Calvin Robinson, an esoteric cleric in a tiny Nordic Catholic Church based in Harlesden, northwest London. In Robinson’s view, the tweet rendered Justin Welby unfit to be the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The Nordic Catholic Church has a mere 414 followers on X. Robinson, by contrast, has nearly 331,000 followers, dating from his time as a prominent presenter on GB News. Few people notice or care what the Nordic Church thinks about anything. Quite a few people hang on every word uttered by Robinson.