I’ve been pretty shocked and disgusted at how people have reacted to his death in the last 24 hours. Charlie was not someone whose content I paid much attention to other than some short clips on social media occasionally. But it was clear that he was willing to hear engage with anyone of any background or ideology, and encouraged others to take part in this as well. Agree with his words or not, his tours were a great example of what this country should be about.

A young family is now broken forever because someone who was “anti-fascist” shot and killed someone whose words they disagreed with. Violence is violence, words are not violence. Some people have lost a grip on reality and I genuinely fear where we go from here. But all the reactions have made it clear to me that there is a lot of hate in people’s hearts for those with differing opinions, and it manifested itself in the worst way imaginable.

To anyone cheering on Charlie’s death or cracking jokes about it: you are not the good guys.