2018 Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize
Western Spring in conjuction with Mike Woodbridge, the executor of Jonathan Bowden’s estate are pleased to announce the fifth occasion of an award in Jonathan’s memory of a prize for oratory, the cash component of which is maintained at £500 this year. Members of the nationalist community and our wider audience are hereby invited to submit to this website, the name of any nationalist speakers that you feel deserve to be added to our list of nominees for this award. For the…
Legion Summer Camp
We are delighted to announce the forthcoming Legion Summer Camp, which will be held on the weekend of 19th – 21st August at a site of outstanding natural beauty in the North of England. The itinerary for the weekend will follow a familiar format for those who have attended these camps before, but the content has been ramped up in intensity to reflect the attendance of celebrity martial arts instructors and our desire to make…
Another Electoral Debacle!
An article featured on the Heritage & Destiny website, begins: “This week’s elections have been a disaster of historic proportions for the British nationalist movement, forcing a serious rethink of our whole strategy and organization”, and clearly, while it does not please us to say this, the results detailed in that Heritage & Destiny article are a vindication of the strategic approach that we at Western Spring have been advocating for some time now. The…
Max Musson at the London Forum
On Saturday 30th April this year I was honoured to be invited to address the London Forum and below is a video recording of my main speech which was very well received. After my speech a member of the audience approached me and gave me an unsolicited donation to our funds and we have received a number of email messages from people present enquiring about membership. By Max Musson © 2016 # # # # JOIN WESTERN…
Jonathan Bowden Oratory Award – and the winner is?
On Saturday 30th April at the London Forum, I had the pleasure of announcing the 2016 winner of the Jonathan Bowden Oratory Award, and this year’s winner is Alex Davies of National Action, the prize being awarded for the speech he made in February this year, also at the London Forum. The announcement was met with applause and there was general agreement that Alex shows great promise as a speaker, having already developed his abilities…
Another Dodgy Dossier
How could anyone vote to leave the European Union now that we know that we will all be £4,300 a year better off by 2030 if we stay in? Except that we will all be better off anyway even if we leave, just not by quite as much – and all of that is assuming that economic growth continues at a predictable rate until 2030. And in economics nothing is predictable. If we are trying…
Alex Davies – Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize 2016 Double Nominee
For the first time in this competitions history a speaker has been nominated for two different speeches in the same twelve month period, and that speaker is Alex Davies of National Action, who delivered this second speech at the London Forum in February 2016 and subsequently received widespread acclaim. What makes Alex’s speeches special is that they are long speeches, in this case lasting more than 30 minutes and are delivered without notes and with…
Tommy Johnson – 2016 Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize Nominee
The fifth nominee for the 2016 Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize is another of the leading lights of National Action, Tommy Johnson, who delivered the following speech at the 2015 National Action Annual Conference. In this speech Tommy speaks at length about the strategy that National Action pursue, and he outlines this strategy at a measured pace, with clear enunciation, and emphasis, but what comes across most strongly is his sense of mission, not just for…
James Mack – 2016 Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize Nominee
In response to popular demand, I am pleased to announce James Mack as our fourth nomination for the 2016 Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize. James made the following speech at the London Forum in February 2016 and reflects a steady improvement in his speaking style. James’ speaking style is clear, well enunciated , and employs repetition, emphasis, metaphor and simplicity, being both entertaining and the embodiment of the ‘KISS’ principle, keeping it simple, so that his…
Jez Turner – 2016 Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize Nominee
I am pleased to announce the second nominee this year for the Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize, the very popular and gregarious Jez Turner of National, the founder of the London Forum. Jez has been nominated for a speech he made on 30th January 2016, which is just one of many speeches he has made during the year and the frequent public speaking practice clearly shows in the ebullient speaking style that Jez has developed. In this speech Jez employs a number of oratorical devices: employing humour,…