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In a joint statement with the BBC, Kilroy-Silk claimed the decision to quit was his and the BBC said it may work with him again, but the Guardian understands that most BBC executives were determined he should not return.

It is also understood that Kilroy-Silk's agent has approached Channel Five with a view to taking his show, and potentially its 1m viewers, to the commercial network. The announcement brought to an end a difficult week for the BBC.

Some senior figures wanted to dismiss Kilroy-Silk a week ago when the Muslim Council of Britain first highlighted the offending column in the Sunday Express, which described Arabs as "suicide bombers, limb amputators, women repressors", and questioned whether Arabs had made any worthwhile contribution to civilisation. Instead, the view prevailed that Kilroy-Silk should be allowed to defend himself.

He would make an unwittingly hilarious fisting gesture to demonstrate the latter option, for which he was weekly mocked on Have I Got News For You. Kilroy-Silk's career could be told as one of being repeatedly shafted — by Militant in , by the BBC in , and by the UK Independence party when he failed to become its leader later that year.

He was shafted by his new party Veritas when he was ousted as its leader in , and by voters who failed to elect him at the general election in the same year. He was shafted by I'm a Celebrity viewers when he was the first to be voted off the show. Could he have risen higher in politics? Possibly I could have done too, but I'm too much of a maverick.

No one can shaft this troublemaking maverick any more. Perhaps more's the pity. He's published three since the spring and each seethes with rage at political correctness in modern British society — with their unsavoury racism, glum sexist stereotypes, borderline homophobic jibes and digs against Islam, they reek of an outsider judging a world he doesn't want to understand.

The first novel, Betrayal, is about consensual adult incest. In it an year-old daughter meets her year-old father for the first time and they are immediately sexually attracted to each other. What made him write that story? He says he originally approached his agent with a political saga of a novel. They said you can clearly write and we'd like something from you.

Then I found a story about a daughter and father who have an affair when they first meet and the mother shops them to the police. It also made me angry. Consensual adult incest is illegal in this country, but it shouldn't be. I know it's shocking, but there are circumstances such as those when it isn't wrong. Adult incest is taboo. It's not the incest theme that put me off Betrayal, just the clunky expository writing and endless digressions.

It begins: "Michael Steven's year-old daughter, Katherina, who he had not seen since she was less than a year old, had arrived at his front door a little over an hour ago, on this Friday afternoon in early June, looking spectacular in the bright sunlight. Kilroy-Silk, to his credit, concedes the point. The second novel, Closure, anatomises the disintegration of a British family. He hopes it will be adapted as a TV series.

His third, Abduction, is better written than the others, but even more likely to require publishers who read it to be brought round with smelling salts. It deals with two parents framed as violent by a pair of hetero-hating lesbian social workers and have their children forcibly adopted as a result. After, of course, having arranged that the children have been kidnapped from their adoptive parents and whisked away to Cyprus.

Nonetheless, I submit, Abduction is the sort of drama Hollywood might like, ideally with Mel Gibson as an un-PC little guy avenging himself on power-crazed social workers, moronic coppers and other jumped-up state functionaries. Only one problem: your inveterate homophobia would need to be excised.

That's not me. And the lesbian social worker story is based on fact. Television presenter Robert Kilroy-Silk has stepped down from his job at the BBC following anti-Arab comments he made in a Sunday newspaper, it was announced tonight. The presenter said he was quitting Kilroy because he recognised his remarks in a Sunday newspaper had caused "difficulties" for the BBC. In a joint statement, the Corporation said Kilroy-Silk's "highly controversial views" were not compatible with the role of a presenter on a topical discussion programme.

That we admire them for being suicide bombers, limb amputators, women repressors? Announcing his decision, Kilroy-Silk was unrepentant about the comments he made in a Sunday Express column. The former Labour MP said: "I believe this is the right moment to leave the programme and concentrate my energies in other directions. Ms Jana Bennett, the BBC's director of television, said Kilroy-Silk's comments made his position as host of topical discussion show untenable.