Crusade on hiatus

End of an era

That’s a wrap! Yesterday, we livestreamed the last Common Sense Crusade for some time. The show is going on hiatus until my eventual return to Britain.

Starting out on TalkRadio as a segment on Cristo Foufas’ Saturday morning show, my Common Sense Crusade began as an attempt to bring a moment of clarity to an ever-increasingly mad world. One of the most memorable moments was when Black Lives Matter activist Ken Hinds tried to tell me that as a mixed-race man, I must support Meghan Markle, because she is “one of [my] own.” Suffice it to say, that did not go down well!

I was later given the opportunity to launch my Common Sense Crusade on television, with GB News - the station I would eventually get fired from for being too Christian (more on that next year, when the courts allow).

Believe it or not, there was a time Archbishops would come on my show to discuss Christendom. These days, the current Archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America, Steve Woods, prefers to put out statements libellously implying that I am an anti-Semite. But back then, the former Archbishop Foley Beach was a good man whom I had a lot of time for. You can watch our interview following the launch of a new diocese in Australia on my YouTube channel.

I was the first to call out the World Economic Forum (WEF) on air. When I watch that monologue back, I can see the tensions at play. I had to be extremely careful with my wording to get this past the liberal producers and overly cautious lawyers. But it was an important conversation to be had when there is a bunch of mostly unelected elites dictating global policy.

One of my first - if not the first - monologues was about the Pakistani Moslem rape gangs. An awful atrocity that it was vital to cover, but again, I had to fight tooth and nail to get the conversation on air. Those days were more challenging than viewers would assume. The home of ‘free speech’ was more of a controlled opposition all along, but more on that next year. One day, I will talk about the anti-Christian attitudes from upper management and how they tried everything they could to remove elements of Christianity from my Christian TV show. At present, I am not legally allowed. That day will come.

The sad thing is, I am still monologuing about the Pakistani Moslem rape gangs. They are still going on. Young British girls are still being groomed and raped by Pakistani Moslem men who see them as less-than-human, and our Establishment continues to cover it up. From the local councillors, to the social services, the police forces and members of the Houses of Parliament. Shame on every single one of them. A demographic that makes up 4% of the population is responsible for 65% of the child sexual abuse, and no one wants to do anything about it; they would rather prioritise ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusion’. Disgusting.

When I left Britain, Carl Benjamin kindly gave me a slot to broadcast my show on his platform, the Lotus Eaters, and the Crusade continued from there.

Comparing those two ‘Grooming Gang’ videos really shows how long I have been at this. I may have started out young, vibrant and optimistic, but I am becoming jaded in my relatively old age. The afro and beard are not the only changes. This battle takes a toll on you, especially when you cannot see positive change coming from it.

And so it is time to take a break. As Britain gets darker, I cannot spend all my time talking about that darkness, even to expose it. It is my calling to spread the light - the Good News. If/when I return to Britain, I will pick up the Crusade, and hopefully, the conversation will have moved on by then. There were practical difficulties, too, being in the United States streaming through the Lotus Eaters HQ in Swindon - timezone constraints, etc. And even though the production team at GB News were mostly liberal, it does help having a team - doing it on your own is impractical. You need people to bounce ideas around with.

My show with Laurence Fox will continue. We are back for a third series. Fox & Father has taken less of a political angle this season, for the same reasons. There are only so many things one can say about the evils of Sir Keir Starmer and Sadiq Khan before a) you start to repeat yourself and b) it starts to get to you. And so, we are talking about more interesting themes than political topics, this time around. You can catch Fox & Father on my YouTube channel at 7pm UK time on Sundays.

You can also join us for Evensong at 8.30pm UK / 3pm ET every Sunday, and a number of clerical Crusaders and I pray online for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. And on Wednesdays, we livestream an Evensong service from St Paul’s Church in Grand Rapids at 6pm ET. These Evensong services are Evening Prayer in accordance with the Book of Common Prayer. Evensong is a treasure of the Church - this service is non-sacramental, so Christians of all traditions/denominations can join.

It wasn’t all doom and gloom on the Crusade. Some of my best bits were the one-to-one interviews, when the viewers and I got to see the real person behind the caricature. My interview with Tommy Robinson stands out to me as one of the best episodes. I had grown up assuming Tommy was a racist because that is what the mainstream media had always reported him to be. But after the constant lies around Brexit, Covid, the Ukraine and the likes, I figured if I don’t trust the media on anything else, why would I trust them on this? I sat down with Tommy for a couple of hours and found him to be a genuinely nice chap who just passionately cares about our country. Give it a watch for yourself and let me know what you think in the comments.

I even managed to get the political parties of the Right together to see if there was any chance they might work together. UKIP, SDP, and Reclaim agreed to talk for the sake of their members and the country. Reform refused to engage.

Back in the television days, the highlights for me were always the Easter and Christmas specials. Every week, we were on air discussing current events, trying to bring a Christian perspective to the madness around us. Shining a light in an ever-darkening world. But for Easter and Christmas, we were able to explicitly talk about Christ (which is surprisingly difficult on 21st-century TV). The meaning of Christmas and Easter specials made it all worthwhile.

Easter 2023:

Christmas 2022:

Easter 2022:

Christmas 2021:

Some of the great guests we had on over the years, include: His Imperial and Royal Highness the Archduke of Austria, Patsy Kensit, Monsignor Nazir-Ali, Jonathan Pageau, Paul Kingsnorth, Professor Robert George, Baroness Claire Fox, Bishop Robert Barron, Jon Milbank, Rod Dreher, Sir Desmond Swayne, Tommy Robinson, Dr Taylor Marshall and many more. Jordan Peterson had agreed to come, but we could never make it work with his gatekeepers. We also had Simon Njala lined up to appear - the Ugandan Journalist who famously asked “why are you gay” - but that didn’t work out, either. Those would have been great shows, no doubt.

Thank you for being a part of the Crusade. We could not have done it without you, on the wireless, on television, or online. Hopefully, when Britain has had enough of the mass invasion, there will be an actual Crusade, and we will once again push the evil ideology that is Islam out of Europe. Until then, keep on Crusading in the best way you can, with common sense. Deus vult.

You can find our back catalogue of Common Sense Crusade episodes over on the Lotus Eaters website.

If you would like to own a piece of the Crusade, you can grab one of our Limited Edition Common Sense Crusade Churchwarden Pipes. United Kingdom orders are available on the Lotus Eaters store. International orders are available from The Catholic Pipe Company.