Charlie Downes is a political strategist, writer, and commentator who regularly appears on GB News, Talk, LBC, Lotus Eaters, and elsewhere.
Centring the Experience of the English Community
Originally published at countrysquire.co.uk. We hear a great deal about the various “communities” that make up the grand disjointed patchwork of modern Britain. All of our country’s major institutions — the government, the civil service, the corporations, the NGOs,...
Protests Do Not Bring About Change
In democracies, we are led to believe that we affect change simply by winning enough people over to our position. That if we could just convince enough people that we are right and our opponents are wrong, then meaningful change is both inevitable and imminent. That...
Freedom, Like Equality, is a False God
Originally published on lotuseaters.com. “Equality is a false god.” You will be familiar with this phrase if you have spent any time in right-wing spaces online. Well-known among the Right, this aphorism represents the fundamental rejection of the left-wing worldview....
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