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Season C's apply book today at hmhair.uk Hello and welcome to Trigonometry. I'm

Frances Foster. I'm Constantin Kitchen and this is a show for you if you want

honest conversations with fascinating people. Our terrific guest today is a former

teacher turned political commentator Calvin Robinson. Welcome to Trigonometry.

It's an absolute pleasure to be here in person. Thank you very much. It's great to have you on,

man. Listen, you've been doing the rounds lately and we like people who piss a lot of people off

and you, I think, are right at the top of that list of them. I mean, you're doing well. But for

anyone who isn't familiar with your background, your story, because as I was saying to you,

before a lot of people will see you popping up and talking about some of the things we'll go on to

talk about. But they might not be familiar with your backstory. So tell us who are you,

how are you, where you are, have you ended up sitting here talking to us?

Good question. So I think, first of all, you said I piss a lot of people off and I find that

fascinating because to me, I'm just speaking normal, common sense, British values, the things that I

was brought up understanding were what normal people think. I don't try to be extreme. I don't

try to be a convert or anything like that. I just kind of speak my mind. So my background is,

I'm from the Midlands, a small town called Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, former miners town,

very working class background, white mother, black father. My father's family are from Jamaica.

They came over here during the Windrush generation. So I've got a lot of experience in what you call

racism. I was trying to think of a better way of putting it, but growing up in as one of the first

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