Raw Egg Nationalist

Charles Cornish-Dale, better known by his online alias Raw Egg Nationalist (REN), is a British far-right influencer and conspiracy theorist. He is the editor of the magazine Man's World, published in print by Passage Press. He appeared on Tucker Carlson's documentary The End of Men in 2022, increasing his popularity. He was a pseudonymous writer until 2024, when his identity was revealed by the British advocacy group Hope not Hate.

He has written several books promoting his views on nutrition and fitness, including Raw Egg Nationalism and The Eggs Benedict Option. REN has been noted as an influential voice in online communities, advocating the carnivore diet and raw food movement, as well as bodybuilding. He has advocated for white nationalism, and promoted conspiracy theories relating to anti-globalism, particularly the Great Reset initiative and the Great Replacement.

Biography Cornish-Dale graduated with his undergraduate history degree from the University of Exeter, then completed doctoral studies at the University of Oxford, where he earned a Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil.) in 2018 as a member of Lincoln College, Oxford. His doctoral thesis, Migrations of the Holy: The Devotional Culture of Wimborne Minster, c.1400-1640, considers the religious history of a Dorset parish. Cornish-Dale lectured at Lincoln College.

His identity was revealed by the British advocacy group Hope not Hate in 2024, leading him to write under his real name for The Spectator.

Work and views REN's popularity grew from the online dissident right space beginning in the 2020s. In 2022, he appeared on Tucker Carlson's one-hour documentary special The End of Men on Fox News, as did Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has espoused the great replacement conspiracy, and has promoted eugenics.

REN promotes bodybuilding, while also promoting racist conspiracy theories and far-right ethnonationalism. American magazine Vanity Fair noted him as a "masculinist health guru". He has promoted conspiracy theories relating to anti-globalism,

Dietary REN's online avatars feature pictures of bodybuilder Vince Gironda.

REN is a prominent and influential figure in the online carnivore diet and raw food movement. His online avatars utilize photos of American bodybuilder Vince Gironda, with whom he shares a belief in raw eggs as a "superfood", hence his pseudonym. He promotes an animal-based raw food diet, including organ meat, raw milk, raw honey, as well as the consumption of animal fats and olive oil. In 2022, REN described plant-based meat substitutes as "perverted" products pushed to bring civilization to a "brink of madness". In 2023, REN promoted a debunked conspiracy that flavor enhancers made from fetal tissue were used to make Pepsi.

The World Economic Forum had in 2016 predicted that in 2030 people would eat far less meat, which Great Reset opponents view as evidence of a conspiracy to control the behavior of the populace. REN alleged this was connected to the rise in meat prices due to inflation from 2021 to 2022, which he said served the purpose of "globalists" to stop people from eating meat. He has compared the proscribed vegetarianism in Plato's Republic as a tool of social control to the Great Reset's supposed goals for food, to create "a food-dependent, and thus more domesticated, population"; he advocates local consumption of produce, regenerative agriculture, and decentralization of agriculture to fight against the Great Reset. It also advocates for backyard gardening and a return of bison farming. The book promotes a conspiracy theory that contemporary liberalism has precipitated a global decline in testosterone. It argues that endocrine disrupting chemicals in microplastic, plant-based diets, processed foods and modern culture hostile to traditional masculinity is to blame for testosterone levels dropping worldwide.

Publications As Charles Cornish-Dale

As Raw Egg Nationalist