Londoner’s Diary
Cleric and former GB News motor-mouth Calvin Robinson has been having a tough time since he was sacked by the channel last month along with his brother-in-farce Laurence Fox. Now that the GBN money has dried up, Robinson has been crowdfunding to pay his London rent. But that won’t stop his jet-setting. He has been in Florida on a paid for preaching trip and, this week, he dropped into Disney World (free entry, he says – did Mickey Mouse require intercession?).
The Londoner has a morbid fascination with Robinson, 37, who was a teacher before seeking ordination as an Anglican deacon. He left the Church of England in 2022 because, he claimed, woke bishops refused to give him a ministry. He then moved to the Free Church of England, a fringe group for clerics with conservative views. But even they, it seems, are a bit soft for the deacon.
We understand he is now seeking ordination in the Nordic Catholic Association. Sources inside the Free Church of England told us about his forthcoming departure from their flock, but would not go into detail about the circumstances. We wonder what draws him to the Nordic Catholic Association, a traditionalist Lutheran Church based in Norway.
After Laurence Fox was suspended from GBN – for saying on air, of a female journalist, “Who’d want to shag that?” – Robinson defended Fox under this auspices of free speech, attacked the channel on Twitter/X and was then also suspended. Both Fox and Robinson were soon after sacked by GB News and Robinson’s Sunday afternoon programme, Calvin’s Common Sense Crusade, was taken off air.
