by Gavin Ashenden on substack
Like many people, I first came across Laurence Fox as a fan when I watched him on television as Detective Hathaway in Lewis.
Little did I know in those innocent days that we would find ourselves on the same side, fighting against the twin challenges of our age: on the one hand, the challenge posed by unrestricted Islamic immigration and the associated threat of a dominant Islamic culture; and on the other, a resurgent cultural Marxism determined to destroy free speech and hell-bent on a campaign against Christian values and the Christian order.
Laurence has paid a higher price than most and attracted the rage and opprobrium of the powers that be. He has shown impressive resilience and admirable courage in the face of persecution, demonisation and defamation.
Recently, he was given the platform of taking part in an Oxford debate on whether or not we were right to be apprehensive about the advance of Islam and its associated culture.
He was standing alongside Tommy Robinson, which in itself is an act of courage, and was ready to take the argument to the increasingly enraged opponents of free speech and Christianity.
Much like the real black-shirt fascists of the 1930s, the new left-wing fascists came out onto the streets and made it almost impossible for anyone to get to the debating chamber. They were determined to close down the argument and the whole process of democratic debate.