hello and welcome. this is calvin's common sense crusade. with me, the reverend calvin robinson. on your tv , online and robinson. on your tv, online and on your wireless. today, we will be discussing why the archbishop of canterbury is ramadan. current threats to western civilisation . and i'm joined by civilisation. and i'm joined by historian david starkey to debate the colossal enigma that is boris johnson . plus, in the is boris johnson. plus, in the jewel, my jewel lists will be battling out the future of the metropolis. this after it was accused of being institutionally racist, sexist and homophobic

and the web. your take on this .7 and the web. your take on this? i think that the metropolitan police, all the evidence suggests, is absolutely riddled with rot. but to use the term institutional is politically and ideologically loaded . and dennis ideologically loaded. and dennis macshane don't know what institutional means. macshane don't know what institutional means . we know institutional means. we know they're racist. we know that misogynist . we know also they're misogynist. we know also they're not doing some other areas. if 35,000 men, it's a biggest police force of a capital city in the world, more than the fighting soldiers of the british army, breaking it up, get it down into the community. more of that to come. but before all of that to come. but before all of that has the news with radisson . thanks calvin. here's the latest from the gb newsroom, the statistics watchdog says the prime minister used incorrect figures when discussing the asylum claims backlog. the uk statistics authority has written to the government saying numbers used by rishi sunak do not reflect official stats . it's

reflect official stats. it's wrong, they say, to claim that the conservatives have halved the conservatives have halved the number of people waiting for their asylum application to be processed when the backlog has increased by 150,000 since they took office . post office workers took office. post office workers have been offered a 9% pay rise following a series of strikes. members of the communication workers union who work at crown post offices have also been offered substantial lump sum payments of between two and £3,000. they also see an increase in paternity pay . increase in paternity pay. they'll now be balloted on the with the union saying it's the best that can be achieved . two best that can be achieved. two teenage boys have been charged the murder of a 16 year old boy who was stabbed to death in northampton . rowan shand, known northampton. rowan shand, known as fred, died following the attack wednesday afternoon. the 14 and 16 year old boys who can't be named for legal reasons, appeared before magistrates court. this morning. they've been remanded in custody

. the mayor of greater manchester has been fined almost £2,000 after being caught driving 38 miles an hour over the speed limit. in a statement , andy burnham says he had to reroute when he realised his junction was closed, but he was not aware of any variable speed being in place. he is reportedly driving at 78 miles an hour in a 40 zone. the mayor says he was going too fast and accepts the court's decision . at least 23 court's decision. at least 23 people have been killed after a major tornado hit the us state of mississippi . it's understood of mississippi. it's understood that dozens have been injured and at least four people are still missing after the twister swept through the state and on into alabama. the emergency management agency says the storm has left a trail of damage more than 100 miles long. residents have spoken of entire buildings in rubble. cars turned over and

trees uprooted . i had to get trees uprooted. i had to get ourselves into the middle part of the house and we did. and we got in there and obviously was coming right behind us because as soon as we got in there, we heard a big boom and didn't hear anything for a little. so anything else for a little. so we and then it came we walked out and then it came out to about ten trees down in our rush wants to station our yard rush wants to station nuclear weapons in belarus, to according country's state media. president putin says he's struck a deal to post tactical nuclear weapons within the country , weapons within the country, which borders ukraine. he claims it's not a violation of nuclear, non—public agreements, comparing it with the united states stationing nuclear on the territory of its european allies . this is gb news. we'll bring you more as it happens. so let's back to father calvin .

back to father calvin. what does a post christian britain look like ? liberals britain look like? liberals argue it's a secular society free of the antiquated oppression of religion, conserved shifts might argue that we get our moral compass from christianity, and without it , we have a from christianity, and without it, we have a limited understanding of truth, beauty and goodness . either way, i'm and goodness. either way, i'm not convinced we're entering a penod not convinced we're entering a period of agnosticism or atheism. it seems to me that as christianity shrinks away into the corners of western society , the corners of western society, another faith is being promoted to take its place by default . i to take its place by default. i would argue that liberals are handing over the reins to islam. bradford cathedral made the news this week for hosting a large iftar event . iftar is the break iftar event. iftar is the break forced of muslims who are fasting throughout ramadan for a place of christian worship to be hosting such an event will be held up by liberals as inclusive. but to christians it may be offensive to the point of

sacrilege, especially if prayers are said during these events . are said during these events. how christian leaders can support the misuse of consecrated ground is beyond me. some seem to have lost all sense of the sacred and instead focus on temporal matters, worshipping the god of diversity, inclusion and equality over our lord and saviour. jesus christ. this is not the first time something like this has happened, though. it's been going on for a number of years now. st chad's roman cathedral, catholic cathedral in birmingham was the first to do something this outside of something like this outside of london when they hosted iftar in 2018. following year, the 2018. the following year, the bishop london hosted an bishop of london hosted an interfaith ramadan in st paul's cathedral, or mother church alongside the mayor of london, sadiq khan. in my opinion, there is nothing interfaith about it. it's blasphemous and a direct contradiction of the first commandment. will mosques be hosting easter celebrations in return? i highly doubt it. may i said it calms. return? i highly doubt it. may i said it calms . seems to embrace said it calms. seems to embrace these opportunities though . this these opportunities though. this week he switched on london's first ever ramadan lights in

piccadilly circus . as piccadilly circus. as a christian country, we've always christmas lights and i have nothing against being welcoming to people of other faiths and none. but for our capital city to be explicitly celebrating a foreign religion is like waving a white flag . archbishop of a white flag. archbishop of canterbury justin welby released a video this week greeting our muslim sisters and brothers at the start of ramadan . no longer the start of ramadan. no longer defending against heresies, our spiritual leader and first among equals, is now outwardly embraced in heresy, as if it's something to be celebrated. what makes matters worse is we're currently in the most sacred time year for christians. time of year for christians. lent and passion tied are the reflective periods in the lead up to our holiest of holy days. easter, when we remember the death, passion and resurrection of jesus christ who died on the cross for our sins, to offer us salvation. i do hope we'll see some easter celebration as in all multicultural capital city in the coming weeks to at the very we'll some here on gb very we'll have some here on gb news. we have filmed a solemn

easter which will which easter special which will which will air easter day . will air on easter day. let's move on to the duel between brilliant duellists emma webb and denis macshane, a review by baroness louise casey has found the metropolitan police to be institutionally racist , sexist and homophobic police to be institutionally racist, sexist and homophobic . racist, sexist and homophobic. the report commissioned after the met office, wayne cousins abducted and murdered sarah everard says the force may need a complete overhaul and that pubuc a complete overhaul and that public consent is broken when it's public consent is broken when wsfime public consent is broken when it's time for the jewel between my sidekick emma webb and this week's nemesis, former labour mp and minister for europe , denis and minister for europe, denis macshane. emma what does it mean to be institutionally racist? well, i mean the term has ideological baggage that comes critical theory. this idea that you know something , can be you know something, can be structurally or institutionally to its core. and so the only way to its core. and so the only way to rid it of those demons, as it

were, is dismantle the entire institution. that's that's the sort of critical theory understanding of what it means. but to say something is institutionally racist implies that even if you took out all of the individuals involved, the, you know, the institution itself , almost be beyond reform, that nothing would change even if you removed from the removed everybody from the system. but that, of course, isn't what we're talking about when we're at this when we're looking at this evidence. we're talking about particular instances that demonstrate rot. i think demonstrate serious rot. i think within the metropolitan police and there's no doubt about the evidence that louise casey has presented in her report . but i presented in her report. but i think that mark rowley, the commissioner, is absolutely right to pull back from this conclusion , that it means that conclusion, that it means that the met is institution really racist. because if anything, that actually hampers your ability , deal with the problem ability, deal with the problem in meaningful way because in a meaningful way because you're focusing on this this abstract institution. what does it mean? we don't know, but we can at individual problems can look at individual problems and how dennis, is and how solve them. dennis, is this a cop saying it's institutionally racist and sexist? does that prevent them

fixing problem. out? fixing the problem. cop out? that's right. phrases not at that's right. phrases no, not at all. institutionally racist goes back to the steve lawrence. it's nothing to do with critical race . biggest . and actually the biggest charge i'd say in lewis case report is anti—women remarks or anti—religious . putting a bacon anti—religious. putting a bacon in the shoe of muslim pakistani origin officer so that is just ugly kind of canteen culture . i ugly kind of canteen culture. i attended the vigil for the murder of sarah ever heard in clapham common was a dark night, but it was completely peaceful, just women. i i just was living quite close to coming along, holding candles, having little speeches and the cops smashed them. big burly men carrying these women by force , running these women by force, running these women by force, running the vans around clapham common with sirens blurring much noise and light as possible. i mean this was much so canteen culture at the moment when all of london

was in shock horror the serving police officer but this woman uses warren card to get into his evil grip . so yes, i think , i evil grip. so yes, i think, i think mark wrote it doesn't matter where it is. there is institutional racism. he is a product of a system . i know he's product of a system. i know he's come back. i wish him well. he's not going to do it unless, as so often in the past misses, such it did it to sort of all the fix problems of trade unions of the city. you break it apart and you start again . well, emma, no start again. well, emma, no one's denying that there is racism and sexism going on in the force. a serious degree, actually. bacon in the shoe was horrible. of course, the horrible. but of course, the death sarah everett the death of sarah everett is the ultimate of where this ultimate angle of where this ends is being ends up. but is it being introduced through okorie? has it stoked on the through it been stoked on the through the solutions that they provided previously? it's previously? well, it's interesting, that interesting, isn't it, that whilst been more whilst the police have been more performative ever trying performative than ever in trying to demonstrate that they're inclusive dancing around inclusive by dancing around pride wearing high pride flags, by wearing high heeled shoes, by taking the knee

. all of these things that the british public seen police british public seen the police actively aligning themselves with, these progressive i ideological causes. but at the same time, the reality is that i'd say this is a sticking plaster, but i don't think that's the right way to phrase it. someone said to me, if, if, if an institution or any organisation or company is virtue signalling so much, you have to ask what might they hiding? so obviously all of the diversity and inclusion courses in the world, all of the performer tivity in the world hasn't dealt the core of the problem. i think for me, the thing that stuck out the most from this evidence that i think is as really a lot of is as really stung a lot of people is it was the evidence about the fridges, rape kits being left in fridges and being allowed to, you know, basically go off so they can't be used evidence someone keeping their in a fridge with rape kit samples mean this stuff is atrocious and i mean to say it's unprofessional doesn't even cut it. but that mean that yes you

said that that the term institutional racism from the start we use was first used in that macpherson report. but ultimately institutional and structural racism whether however you understand it in the current context , comes with that current context, comes with that ideological baggage . i think ideological baggage. i think that the police force has all sorts of problems. i think the top down structure, the leadership is all wrong. we need bobbies on the beat not people policing tweets. i think the college of has an awful lot to answer for and in damaging the public's trust through the introduction of things like non crime hate incidents which stay on people's public record police that you know, things that they tweet there is a whole host of that has quite rightly led to a massive decline in public trust in the police force not just the things that have been mentioned in this review . and so this is in this review. and so this is not to in way diminish the evidence that has actually been presented in the casey review , presented in the casey review, but that the police force

but to say that the police force is, institutionally is, therefore institutionally racist , i is, therefore institutionally racist, i think is just simply not helpful. well, i tend to agree that the moment you start using adverbs, you begin to lose the argue . but since you added the argue. but since you added it was answered, why throw it away as a writer? that's what i tried to . don't always do it. tried to. don't always do it. the racist . okay, misogynist bob the racist. okay, misogynist bob institutional. i got no problems with that. but what are we going to do right now ? i would suggest to do right now? i would suggest we did an urgent commission maybe ever consistently and calvin , don't call it back on. calvin, don't call it back on. you should sit on it and go to other big cities in world capitals a matter where they are australian see it in north america europe and see how they do it because offhand the american police force that dreadful problems 2030 years ago they on the whole seem to take in a really tough decisions to, clean it up . one simple change clean it up. one simple change is quite lot of forces around the world graduate trade just as our is now graduate trained to

begin with was. oh i did nurses told you to go to the us you know don't go to the police. i think the opposite is true. i think the opposite is true. i think that we need we need to move away from the sort of hra to policing the fact that the police officers need a great a degree, i think is just completely absurd. you do not need a degree to enforce the law. and in fact, what we're is that in many cases there are there examples that that often there examples that that often the police arrest people not fully understanding the law themselves it not being entirely clear why someone is being arrested so clearly having a degree isn't helping officers integrate if look at the evidence once you are suppose to too much in my life i'm all the view of the police officers the rest wrong people just entirely agree with with that line but seriously it's all about h.r. it's about training. about training. don't need a degree for that. we don't need a we need an awful lot of training. we don't on the whole, in other professions, many of which are

still male dominated , macho, still male dominated, macho, lots of old traditions have similar stories. it seems to be unique to the english police and unique to the english police and unique to the metropolitan police. i would suggest some of the training is part of the problem. so if we look at the evidence from the report, there's some snobbery in this. at particular police officer at one particular police officer complained have complained that he'd have to know than language to know more than one language to go a job that wanted to go go for a job that wanted to go for. he'd be denied a job job if he didn't speak more than one language. now, to that's that's discrimination. suggests discrimination. but it suggests anybody's everybody's in the cabinet. i can hardly speak english. let english. i mean, let alone a second. but surely an english police officer in an english city should not be required. i know enough know i. know enough to know that i. look, all look, i di been arguing all political yes, we political life that yes, we should speak well to should learn to speak well to our languages, our beloved country . stop thinking english country. stop thinking english is the only in the world it's not. but is our language. dennis well, well, let's. what the metropolitan commissioner metropolitan police commissioner said issued said, sir mark rowley, issued this statement twitter this statement via twitter baroness casey's , report sparks baroness casey's, report sparks feelings of shame and but it

also increases our resolve we've let people down. i'm sorry it must be a catalyst for police . must be a catalyst for police. well many thanks to my duellists emma webb and dennis mcshane. now my calvins. emma webb and dennis mcshane. now my calvins . a twitter poll now my calvins. a twitter poll this week is as macron consoles king charles of state visit all the french revolting again . yes the french revolting again. yes or no? you tell me this is your final call to get your votes in. on our twitter poll, head to gb news on twitter and keep your comments coming in. we'll be discussing this later on discussing this topic later on in show. plenty more this in the show. plenty more this evening my common sense evening on my common sense crusade next behind crusade. next up, it's behind the headline with a legendary historian broadcaster, dr. david stoffel . this week, he's picking stoffel. this week, he's picking apart porter gate and boris johnson. don't go away . on mark johnson. don't go away. on mark dolan tonight is the home secretary suella braverman right to accommodate asylum on ferries? in my big opinion, the protests by the french this weekend are there to challenge the tyranny of the elites. people. power may just save free

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at nine. bofis at nine. boris johnson faced a grilling by the privileges committee this week to determine whether he or intentionally misled parliament over politics. johnson denies wrongdoing , over politics. johnson denies wrongdoing, and our very own jacob rees—mogg has suggested the animus against boris be politically motivated and that the liberal media and political

classes still haven't given him a break and forgiven him over brexit. i spoke with broadcaster and historian david starkey about this story as , what he had about this story as, what he had to say. why do you think this term recklessly was introduced? it seems possible he could have recklessly run , intentionally recklessly run, intentionally misled them , and that surely misled them, and that surely this isn't as bad as lying, which would require intention. i'm afraid i am very firmly. jacob rees—mogg side on this. i think that the entire proceedings of the committee i wouldn't call them a kangaroo court , but they are a political court, but they are a political and other words. this is an action which has been taken against boris. frankly is an act of vengeance. it's draped in the language of propriety, of protecting parliamentary procedure and so on. but really, it is no more and no less than an attempt to going back to the middle ages. and when a minister fell, he was impeached , attended fell, he was impeached, attended his head was cut off, and he was

stripped of his property. and this is a version of that. interestingly enough, it's exactly what's happening in america at the moment with trump. the attack on trump. remember which has none of the dignity of oh dear me of harry and harmon. i'm afraid the key figure is the figure, you know, just about as remote, the boring, uptight throttle, harriet, as possible. it is, of course. storms daniels. but the attempt at, as it were , putting attempt at, as it were, putting putting trump in cuffs, doing the perp walk, humiliating him, trying to exclude from office. this seems to me to be a fundamental step back , which fundamental step back, which we're seeing it. fundamental step back, which we're seeing it . everybody talks we're seeing it. everybody talks reverently about the separation of powers. i don't particularly believe in it, but what we're doing and the whole proceedings of this commons committee demonstrated we are increasingly confusing justice with politics

politics. and this is a deadly thing to do. the whole the whole operation of an honest politics in which can make a mistake , you in which can make a mistake, you can be punished for it by the electorate, but you don't suffer anything else is the foundation of not liberal democracy in britain . it happens much earlier britain. it happens much earlier than that. it happens the early 18th century. it's the foundation of it and essentially liberal, responsible system of government in which you separate criminal penalties from the penalties of sale . and it's penalties of sale. and it's immensely important that we distinguish between those and it seems to me there's been a deliberate attempt with the these proceedings actually bringing those two things together and draping what is a nakedly political trial in a pretence of defending political morality. and that is a really dishonest that's a that's much more dishonest. and more damaging than boris. because the

final point and it's that jacob well, i do not always with has also made this leads to the top this is there's been donald against somebody on the at the earliest opportunity it will be done against somebody on the left. i know i study the reign of hand with the age when this sort of thing was poison , the sort of thing was poison, the destructive element of a politics which otherwise tried to be reasonable. and one of debate the moment introduce punishment , debate the moment introduce punishment, criminal punishment for political failure. you are lost . well, i think you're right lost. well, i think you're right . draw comparisons between going on in america and what's going on in america and what's going on over here. and i think you're also right in that this seems to be more of a political trial than a seeking of justice. but what is the motivation behind david? i think it's the one david? well i think it's the one that you've indicated that this is the vengeance to the particular political class , that particular political class, that boris, the one unquestioned

achievement that boris has is at least technically carried out brexit. and he did so of course, essentially by breaking the power of that political class, which would establish a throttle like grip on parliament. you're saying he didn't? well, that was a historian and broadcaster. dr. david starkey on the boris johnson partygate hearing you can watch the full version of that interview on youtube. what to my duellists how much do you think boris johnson is being set up think boris johnson is being set ”p by think boris johnson is being set up by political opponents and the media? i wouldn't be surprised if boris johnson really genuine . he does believe really genuine. he does believe that when he those comments that when he made those comments to that he to parliament that he wasn't intentionally misleading the house. think that actually house. i think that actually this the whole focus on this whole the whole focus on this whole the whole focus on this for, i think jacob rees—mogg's comments on rees—mogg's comments bang on that said the you know tony that he said the you know tony blair and he's responsible for the iraq war was never hauled before anything over that whereas boris johnson is in trouble for looking at some cake. i'm not necessarily going so far as to like diminish the fact that probably they broke

rules. but i think the whole thing is a red herring. i think that we should be focusing on getting accountability the getting accountability for the fact that these these rules are imposed fact that these these rules are impos

bofis.| think there are two points about boris. i mean, i've think there are two points about boris . i mean, i've known him boris. i mean, i've known him all life , wrote a a few all my life, wrote a piece a few weeks so i point calling weeks ago, so i no point calling bofis weeks ago, so i no point calling boris johnson a liar. i mean on his own terms. is he never has been. he just doesn't know what the is. and so you can't be a liar if you don't know the truth. this is part of his charm. ask all the women he's left behind. moved to on i mean this is this is our johnson and this is this is ourjohnson and it's tory mp who kicked him out of the daily telegraph, the daily mail that destroyed him last summer . daily mail that destroyed him last summer. you've got two big things happened this week. number one, there's a big vote on the no large protocol, the so—called windsor framework. bofis so—called windsor framework. boris appealed to all tory mps of 400 or 365 elected with him. thanks to him, he would say in 2019, just 21 went into the lobby with him and then the next on bbc one's question time. fiona asked the audience in a middle class part of the country , hands up, anybody who thinks johnson tells the truth . i mean,

johnson tells the truth. i mean, that's a bbc audience. so i. no, no, it is. it is very carefully picked up as i know the first part is take to ensure that they get their share of the audience. and you're quite right quite wrong kelvin for what's your real right. no way. you don't call the whip boris's now. i mean, okay amazing career lasted so long his prime minister you will have people like my friend ben have you on this show you'll have richard tyson. listen the show. nigel farage has got his own programme. they all think the for getting brexit done bofisis the for getting brexit done boris is imposed deal on this it changes even strongly to that don't you think that this is a profound waste of taxpayers money of resources of parliamentary time focusing on bofis parliamentary time focusing on boris johnson. is it because the globalist coup is not quite over and that they think there's a chance that boris johnson could get back in? they really wanted rishi sunak in. you know, they weren't truss got weren't happy that liz truss got in democratically, so they

booted her out to and they've got and they're got rishi and now they're worried boris could come worried that boris could come back. it is. back. is that what it is. i don't know. i don't know. i think that and i do think that there's necessary really a kind of conspiracy behind of conspiracy pushing behind this. part of this this. i think this part of this might as you see, many might just be, as you see, many other i think the other issues i think the parliament is sort of bumbles along wrong things along on all the wrong things and focusing on the right and never focusing on the right thing. is an thing. so this isn't this is an out of the blue is not conspiracy. can you see the parallels between what's on with trump america? perhaps. trump in america? perhaps. perhaps, know perhaps, but don't i don't know i know enough about i don't know enough about policy. we're looking policy. france is we're looking at france a lot this france is a monarchy, an autocratic monarch. currently they're elected of the last couple of still a monarchy tempered by the anger the street. we're a parliament democracy parliaments means speaking policy talking we get out all our anger hate in parliament. but the absolute core principle people getting up on their feet in the commons have got to speak the truth and

unafraid . i says, i don't blame unafraid. i says, i don't blame boris. i mean you're you're you're asking is somebody who's a snooker or become a rugby star. it'sjust a snooker or become a rugby star. it's just not it's symptomatic . the general decline symptomatic. the general decline of you've mentioned poorly parliament. it's the decline of communication. and within parliament in general the level of scrutiny scrutiny over any legislation that is going through the house is extremely poon through the house is extremely poor. the calibre of parliamentary discussion is incredibly poor. and i'm pretty sure that if you can say that bofis sure that if you can say that boris johnson know what the truth is, i'm sure that there many, many examples of all the people within both houses who don't really know what the truth is. careful is. well be very careful that that respect people that is what with respect people said over the years of just reading a giant seven volume, 10,000 page biography of mussolini . that's all he ever mussolini. that's all he ever said. the parliament ontarians are stupid. they're following orders. they don't pay any attention . we have to have a new attention. we have to have a new

order in italy . be very careful order in italy. be very careful before report. i think there's a very big between just because the point that david starkey made is that they made the exact executive much smaller and the parliamentary challenge wasn't there, which is what led us to there, which is what led us to the mess we're in right the mess that we're in right now, think. anyway, plenty now, i think. anyway, plenty more this this more to come on this this evening commonsense evening on my commonsense crusade the break is crusade after the break is western nation under western civilised nation under threat? away. we'll.

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documentary , the west, premieres documentary, the west, premieres tomorrow evening on youtube. in a bid to convey the core story of the civilised nation that shaped the modern world. it's the proud work of the new culture forum and senior and presenter marks it well joins to explain more. mark it's not tomorrow night. it's tomorrow morning, isn't it? it's tomorrow morning, isn't it? it's tomorrow morning, 930, but 930, crucially in the morning. but of course, it's be able to it's on youtube. so be able to watch whichever like, watch it at whichever you like, 930 evening, but also 930 in the evening, but also work including our international viewers is west viewers as well. but why is west under threat? the west been under threat? the west been under threat, i think particularly since the end of the cold war. you know, the idea of the during the cold war of the west during the cold war saw you saw president saw thatcher. you saw president both using the west to rally together fight the fight we together to fight the fight we needed do against communism. but at the of the cold war, we at the end of the cold war, we suddenly forgot about it. we became worried it wasn't became worried that it wasn't very inclus save that it was something perhaps we should we should move away from. and as a result we touch with the result we lost touch with the achievements of the west and really started only. remember you know, the imperfections and

the . and so i wanted the crimes. and so what i wanted to do with this series is to is to do with this series is to is to restore a truer and fuller version of that narrative and really bring it, you know, to a new audience with new technology, it's technology, because it's something that i think people who you know, who are growing up, you know, post the eighties when i was growing up just haven't had access i what you're access to i like what you're doing to see doing and i can't wait to see it. and know, nigel biggar it. and you know, nigel biggar has something similar, has done something similar, presenting holistic presenting a more holistic approach in approach to the empire in his book. my question is, is it book. but my question is, is it too late? is the west falling? is it crumbling apart around us and to stop it's and too late to stop it? it's never too late with the west. you that's one thing i've you know, that's one thing i've found discovered even more found and discovered even more than researching. than i thought in researching. it how many it reminds me of how many traumas has been traumas the west has been through and the incredible dynamism it has within itself, the restlessness, the reinventing constantly reinventing that it constantly is course is doing, which of course can look like trouble the time. look like trouble all the time. you know , the never looks you know, the west, never looks sort of secure, but at the same time it's always ready to come round again. you round the corner again. you know, we're going to see know, this we're going to see notre getting notre dame paris getting its spire back . it's going to be spire back. it's going to be reopening next year. there's

always coming through. always things coming through. i like the positivity you mentioned that originally we were fighting communism. we seem to that battle, wolf, to have won that battle, wolf, so speak. i mean, marxism has so to speak. i mean, marxism has reared head again, but reared its head again, but in a different form. what is the enemy of the west now? is it wokeism? is it islam? where where the battle lines being drawn? i would say it's external. and in i would say the forces of china and russia, which really show us an alternative to the west . i think alternative to the west. i think in the face of those sorts of forces, can't say, oh, well, it's just everything is modernity and getting wealthy. you can wealthy you know, you can get wealthy like has got wealthy and like china has got wealthy and that's nothing like the west. but against external but against those external forces internal forces, it's the internal trouble facing with the trouble we're facing with the wokeness , the attacks, which wokeness, the attacks, which really do come down to attacks on the west really begin with, say, the late eighties when stanford gets rid of its requirement to study western , requirement to study western, its most popular course because it's decided that this is this is now racist. this is now colonial history that we can't talk about it. when you stop talking about those things,

that's when you end up banning free speech all the sort of free speech and all the sort of lockdown that we're is lockdown that we're having is because people have lost touch with the principles. so we need to return to the source as it were. well, the source is christianity, is it not, because we've that we've we've lost our faith that we've our in the west? well our confidence in the west? well me recommend calvin me recommend to you calvin episode two of west, which episode two of the west, which is covering christianity in great depth although you will also find it mentioned the also find it mentioned at the end episode just to sort end of episode one just to sort of your appetite. well, of whet your appetite. well, give a brief. what is that? give us a brief. what is that? what western values? all what is western values? what all western you. what western values do you. what i say the is in ways it's say in the is in many ways it's the triumph of the individual, but individual but it's the individual moralised christianity. so that we have this tremendous concern for the poor and the weak , for for the poor and the weak, for the outsiders . but we also have the outsiders. but we also have this sort of energised sense that we're going to look at the vision we have and try and make the world more like that. we sort of see the from the outside. and in that way, this is professor lawrence mead's idea and i think it's a very convincing account of what the distinctive in is. distinctive factor in west is. okay, got my nemesis

okay, mark, i've got my nemesis here. can see here. dennis, i can see shivering every time i mentioned christianity. in christianity. i'd be in the forefront of western values in the regard. i regard the cultural regard. i regard faith is very, very important and devalued in politics and understudied as as our universities . but i'm pretty universities. but i'm pretty nervous of it simply because i come from irish and a polish background and my goodness , god background and my goodness, god city, god isn't really an englishman. you know, mark but do you talk to the irish irishmen about the protestants supremacism in ireland over, over centuries , just still over centuries, just still lingering there a little bit with the dupe catholics and very, very ugly phenomena as well. and of course , the one well. and of course, the one group that all the christian supremacist could unite in denigrating were the jews culminating in what happened and still a lot of anti—semitism around. now we have we have in our country , europe, an awful

our country, europe, an awful lot of muslims. what are we going to do christianise that's a good question. should we be evangelising the incoming tide? well, as a christian, of course, i think that we be spreading the truth of the gospel to people of i mean, is one of the i mean, this is one of the reasons why i don't many of the senior clergy in church of england is because if you don't want to evangelise and it suggests you probably don't suggests that you probably don't believe what you believe in believe that what you believe in is the truth and the ultimate truth. but that's not to say that you don't respect other people. you respect their right to freedom of religion and freedom and freedom of expression and freedom of expression and freedom so freedom of conscience. so i think that those things are often , which makes often conflated, which makes people sort heap people feel very sort of heap about mentioning the truth about even mentioning the truth at all. but i had the great pleasure of being interviewed by mark for this documentary . i mark for this documentary. i would have seen the whole thing , the premiere, it wasn't for , the premiere, if it wasn't for the that came to jacob the fact that i came to jacob rees—mogg's show the same rees—mogg's show on the same night. saw introduction to night. but i saw introduction to it and it's absolutely so. everybody should should go and watch tomorrow. there you go

watch it tomorrow. there you go watch it tomorrow. there you go watch documentary watch mark sitwell documentary on youtube on the new culture forum channel. tomorrow morning, emma , dennis mcshane, thank emma webb, dennis mcshane, thank you much for being my you so much for being my duellists this evening, my sidekick nemesis and have sidekick and my nemesis and have more of that next week before take break, let's have a take a final break, let's have a look guys have been look at what you guys have been saying about today's topics. carol says, historically there's always mistrust. france and always been mistrust. france and the will never be friends . the uk will never be friends. macron main hurdle to macron is the main hurdle to brexit controversial take. arnaud says we should done the same, but we rolled over in terms of what we should have done the same. what i if you're talking about telling the king not to visit france dubious about that because the were we reminding him of the guillotine and we should remind the french that he's all king, not theirs. anyway, another that he's all king, not theirs. anyw we're another that he's all king, not theirs. anywwe're discussing, another that he's all king, not theirs. anyw we're discussing, justin:her topic we're discussing, justin welby celebrating ramadan . one welby celebrating ramadan. one of i hope everyone of us says, i hope everyone commenting goes to church and does can to their does what they can to save their culture and native values. otherwise it's pointless complaining. is the key. complaining. that is the key. whoever you are anonymous view or the key. if want or that is the key. if you want to save our churches, if you

want save culture, go to want to save our culture, go to church sunday. it's as simple church on sunday. it's as simple as that and they won't be closed down turned mosques. down or turned into mosques. valerie says. wonderful that everyone together in everyone can come together in celebration. a vicar, celebration. when i was a vicar, hindus muslims hindus and muslims often came into church because they into church to pray because they saw a holy one. unless saw it as a holy one. unless that the one true god, that french the one true god, it's appropriate for them to it's not appropriate for them to be church. be playing in your church. i would that's dangerous. would say that's dangerous. anyway we'll anyway coming up, we'll be discussing archbishop of discussing how the archbishop of canterbury is celebrating ramadan. few ramadan. see you in a few minutes .

welcome back. mark calvin's concern twitter poll this week was as macron cancels charles a state visit all the french revolting again a vast of the comments reply saying the are always revolting and have always been revolting so thank you for

that 88.1% of you said yes while 11.9% of you said no . 11.9% of you said no. interesting stuff. it wasn't nice to see the bordeaux town hall on firefly . it seems like hall on firefly. it seems like the french are taking this protest into a riot. so press for them. finally the archbishop of canterbury, justin welby , of canterbury, justin welby, addressed the muslim community at the of ramadan. let's take a look i give special thanks to muslim community is who have pr and yet the generous practise of holding stars on particular day dunng holding stars on particular day during the time of ramadan the ramadan tent and the nasr legacy are just two organisation tions that have done exemplary work in opening iftar us up to a wider pubuc opening iftar us up to a wider public last year. i enjoyed the great hospitality of and iftar with the muslim association of nigeria here in south london . nigeria here in south london. local churches joined in and it

was a memorable evening . well, was a memorable evening. well, to discuss this , i'm joined by to discuss this, i'm joined by academic and fellow from the henry jackson society was kwasi now ross we've been friends on twitter a long time so it's good to finally meet you in person. thank you for coming on. no worries. am i being oversensitive is it oversensitive here? is it is it strange an archbishop of strange for an archbishop of canterbury celebrating canterbury to be celebrating ramadan? think there is ramadan? i think there is something strange i think something strange about i think the archbishop needs to make a distinction between what his faith is and what other people's are. and i don't there's nothing wrong with obviously congratulating muslims for, you know , holding community events know, holding community events like the like the iftar. but i he's he needs to really focus on his own religion and his own , in his own religion and his own, in my view , what it's lent is the my view, what it's lent is the most holy time of year for christians. i haven't seen him spend much time talking about easter. it seems to me that he spent a long time giving a special mention to people like the project, which the ramadan tent project, which we know even the labour party distanced itself you distanced itself from. you know, keir starmer pulled out of an

effort in 2021 with the ramadan 10th project because they praised cage. we been praised cage. we have been accused being terrorist accused of being terrorist sympathisers. yes . and i sympathisers. well, yes. and i think he needs to really do his due diligence when it comes to some of these groups that have the towards those who are looking to destabilise the west and christian values, particularly here in britain. and i don't think it really reflects well on him to be associated with organisations that. but we've also seen after celebrations in cathedra all up and down the country now i see that as offensive as a christian because i think it's sacrilege of consecrated ground. but would you not see that as offensive as a muslim because? there are images cathedrals of images in these cathedrals of people wouldn't people that you wouldn't worship. i mean, worship. well, yeah. i mean, a lot of muslims don't actually like iconography . they don't you like iconography. they don't you know, worship jesus or like seeing jesus on the cross or anything like particularly when it to other prophets like the

most valued of us is mohammed peace be upon him. so you know we've seen the reactions when those images are there so it seems a bit bizarre to then hold it afterwards in in cathedral . it afterwards in in cathedral. right. | it afterwards in in cathedral. right. i mean what would your reaction be, for example, if we said let's have an easter celebration and a mosque ? i celebration and a mosque? i mean, personally i wouldn't it just wouldn't seem a appropriate, in my view i think the religions to be distinct. there is a distinction between them we believe to be a prophet whereas christians believe jesus to be the son god and, god to be the son of god and, god himself. that's absolutely himself. and that's absolutely fine. to contaminate the fine. but to contaminate the beliefs together seems to be a bit odd in my view. i'm so thankful that you said that because i get a lot of muslims messaging me quite nice people messaging me quite nice people messaging know, messaging me saying, you know, we thing, believe we believe the thing, we believe in god. we also think in the same god. we also think christ was a prophet. i'm like, no, think christ was a no, i don't think christ was a prophet. i think his prophet

king and priest, i think he is god himself, might call god himself, might even call it truly god now truly monetarily. god now there's a clear distinction there's a clear distinction there is this wokeness that we're trying merge islam and christianity and christianity together and in order inclusive order to look inclusive and welcoming yeah, i think welcoming yeah, i do think there is element to this is an element to this inclusivity do think we as christians particularly need to be watering their faith to appease faiths? i mean , i think appease faiths? i mean, i think you know this quite well . you know this quite well. christianity is christians at least are declining. so much so in the west. i the now 40% of that of the population . and so, that of the population. and so, you know, not even half of population are now christians. we see that the wokeness is actually infiltrating into the faith the priorities . the faith and the priorities. the church seem to be elsewhere rather than on the core beliefs of what they should be focusing on. well, my critics would say this not appeasement. is this is not appeasement. this is good community. this is people getting together interfaith getting on together interfaith relationships. say relationships. what you say to that? well, don't think you that? well, i don't think you need use your faith to have need to use your faith to have good the good relations with the communities . we're able to do

communities. we're able to do that without , having use our that without, having to use our faith as a way of doing it. we have british values. we have free speech, we have liberty. we have the rule of these are have the rule of law. these are all of building all good ways of building a cohesive society. yeah so how will be celebrating ramadan will you be celebrating ramadan or taking part in ramadan this year? well, i'm fasting all throughout. i've just had to have some water before i came here. thank you so much for providing that. and i see this some cruises i'm going to be obviously looking into my secrets where i've got a stash of doughnuts. but if i was to offer you one of those doughnuts. would that be an offence with. no, absolutely not. because how would you know that i'm a muslim? how would you know that i'm fasting and even you that i was you didn't know that i was a muslim. wouldn't know muslim. you wouldn't still know that it's okay. it that i'm. and it's okay. it happens. what i mean is lunch happens. so what i mean is lunch now. so i'm also fasting in a different way. i remember different way. but i remember dunng different way. but i remember during they really during my teacher they really laid us and said , to be laid into us and said, to be inclusive to really inclusive you have to really make sure you don't do make sure that you don't do anything another faith make sure that you don't do anythiido. another faith make sure that you don't do anythiido. so another faith make sure that you don't do anythiido. so ifnother faith make sure that you don't do anythiido. so if itther faith make sure that you don't do anythiido. so if it iszr faith make sure that you don't do anythiido. so if it is ramadan,

would do. so if it is ramadan, does matter what religion is? does it matter what religion is? you offer other kids you can't offer other kids chocolates or sweets or anything just they happen just in case they happen to be muslim. like, we're not muslim. i'm like, oh, we're not overriding values , other overriding british values, other values to be values in order to try to be inclusive that is not welcoming. that's people. that's not bringing people. that's not bringing people. that's yeah, that's replacing, surely? yeah, absolutely we don't absolutely you know, we don't want ourselves from want to prevent ourselves from interacting with other people we might feel that we could offend them and that's not how society works. so sometimes people going to get offended and sometimes they're not. we're just never going to we just have to going to know. we just have to just ourselves. and that's just be ourselves. and that's what being is. well, what being british is. well, i think good sign an think we're a good sign of an interfaith relation. absolutely not i think. not of community. so i think. thank much. no worries. thank you so much. no worries. bless you. that was academic and fellow the jackson. fellow from the henry jackson. it wasn't. thank you. it was. it wasn't. so thank you. your time today. each week we end our closing end the show on our closing prayer. today is lady so prayer. today is lady day. so here collective for the here is the collective for the annunciation lord at the annunciation of our lord at the blessed mary. beseech blessed virgin mary. we beseech the lord, pull de grace into our hearts that as we have known the incarnation of the sun, jesus christ, by the message of an angel christ, by the message of an angel. so by his cross and passion we may be brought to

passion we may be brought on to the glory his resurrection the glory of his resurrection through same jesus christ, through the same jesus christ, our lord. you have been watching calvin's sense crusade calvin's common sense crusade with reverend robinson. with me, the reverend robinson. hope the new show. hope you enjoyed the new show. we no longer on sundays. i will be back with you next saturday at 7 pm. i'd like to say a special thank you to my producer, paul sutter, who has worked very, very hard. left worked very, very hard. he left us week, but he still came us this week, but he still came in after days that he'd in after those days that he'd already resigned and helped build so build the show for today. so thank for you and thank you so much for you and god you. next is the god bless you. next up is the saturday great new show saturday five great new show breaks. that, here the breaks. before that, here is the weather and promo diet, weather and the promo diet, folks a good one. god bless folks have a good one. god bless . join me camilla tominey from 930 on sunday morning when iain duncan smith gives me his verdict on brexit and boris i'll also be asking labour's lucy powell about keir starmer's tax return and pension plan . and return and pension plan. and sammy wilson joins me from belfast to reveal whether the dup will go back to powersharing after the windsor framework passed through the commons over and more with me camilla tominey

this sunday morning from 930 . this sunday morning from 930. hello again, we have some pretty wet and windy weather spreading across southern parts we go through tonight elsewhere. yes be some showery rain around. but in the north it's frost and ice. that's perhaps a bigger cause for concern. take a look at the bigger picture and you can see this area of pressure and this area of low pressure and it's this that's going to track its way across the south, bringing some pretty unsettled its way across the south, bri we 1g some pretty unsettled its way across the south, bri we 1g rthroughetty unsettled its way across the south, bri we 1g rthrough saturdaytled its way across the south, bri we 1g rthrough saturday night as we go through saturday night into take into sunday morning. take a closer look at the detail and some spilling out from the some rain spilling out from the southwest across much southwest spreading across much of southern england . of central southern england. wales, we go through the wales, as we go through the night bit of night a little bit of uncertainty as how far uncertainty as to just how far north to make it, north rain's going to make it, but it could be pretty heavy for some of us, perhaps up to 30 millimetres in a few spots. in the north. we've a cold the north. we've got a cold northerly so northerly wind and so temperatures dropping, perhaps a even bnng even some wintry showers bring some but some sleet or snow here, but a milder start in south on sunday morning through sunday itself then. wet first then. yes, cloudy and wet first thing the south. that rain is thing in the south. that rain is gradually going to clear its

way. so we into the way. so as we head into the afternoon, drier, albeit afternoon, it be drier, albeit staying quite cloudy here, some bright sunny , likely bright or sunny, likely further north, across of north, particularly across of scotland, also some showers scotland, but also some showers to watch for. these could be to watch out for. these could be a bit wintry at times. notice ice markedly down ice temperatures markedly down compared we on compared to what we saw on saturday, though, perhaps a little in the little bit milder in the southwest could get to highs of 12 or 13 as we go through the end day, sunday, we are end of the day, sunday, we are going most the cloud going to see most of the cloud and showers clearing away. and those showers clearing away. so a largely dry and clear picture through night picture through sunday night that that cold that combined to that cold northerly mean northerly flow does mean temperatures take temperatures are going to take quite perhaps touch of quite a drop, perhaps a touch of frost in spots towards more southern . but further southern parts. but further north, frost monday north, the frost on monday morning be quite morning is going to be quite widespread and harsh some widespread and harsh with some icy as icy patches. watch out for as well through monday itself then. yes, a cold frosty start for many us, but actually. it's many of us, but actually. it's going a generally fine . going to be a generally fine. lots be had. lots of sunshine to be had. watch some showers watch out for some showers towards coastal parts, the north sea and also some rain reaching towards shetland later. but otherwise plenty of fine weather to had. it going to be to be had. it is going to be chilly though but want

chilly though, but you'll want to most of the fine to make the most of the fine weather before turn more weather before things turn more unsettled, milder later unsettled, albeit milder later in .

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