by Charlie Downes | Jun 22, 2024 | LBC
Political commentator Charlie Downes tells Matt Frei that, whether you agree with his Russia comments or not, Nigel Farage is doing what other ‘mainstream politicians’ are afraid to do – ‘speaking his mind’. Downes, who is in favour of...
by Charlie Downes | Sep 4, 2023 | Country Squire Magazine
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, the media, academia, and so on — centre those...
by Charlie Downes | Jul 15, 2023 | Polemic
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...
by Charlie Downes | Jun 26, 2023 | Lotus Eaters
“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. It is a recognition of the fact that...
by Charlie Downes | Jun 9, 2023 | Lotus Eaters
For generations, the Right has been understood as being first and foremost the side of capitalism. Embodied in the figures of Thatcher and Reagan, capitalism is championed by many in the mainstream who trade under the name “conservative” as the only alternative to the...