Alex Davies – 2018 Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize Nominee
The sixth nominee for the 2018 Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize is a previous winner of this prize. A very well known and popular figure within British nationalism Alex Davies was a one time leading member of the highly controversial and now proscribed National Socialist youth group, National Action. This year Alex has been nominated for a speech made at the Yorkshire forum in the spring of 2017 and which has a hard hitting and controversial theme. [NB: We…
Jonathan Bowden Commemorative Dinner
Last Friday at a swank central London hotel, approximately seventy-five diners gathered to honour the memory and work of the accomplished nationalist intellectual genius, writer and artist Jonathan Bowden, best known in Britain and throughout the Western World as an orator of outstanding ability. Jonathan sadly died prematurely just over five years ago and just a matter of days short of his fiftieth birthday. He had been unwell for some time before that but he concealed the seriousness of his…
Alex Davies – 2017 Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize Nominee
Last year’s winner of the Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize has been nominated once again for a very passionate speech delivered at the South West Forum. Last year Alex was unique amongst current nationalist speakers in that he has the ability to deliver long coherent speeches with little or no reference to notes, and while other young speakers have caught up with him in this respect, he remains the man to beat, combining fluent delivery, with dramatic…
Mark Collett – 2017 Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize Nominee
Setting the bar high in terms of speaking ability among nominees this year, Mark Collett is a highly competent and effective speaker, who benefits from much practice gained through the prominent role he played in the BNP in years past. In addition, Mark has gained further experience of public speaking more recently, appearing as a regular guest on the David Duke Show and producing a series of podcasts and now videocasts on his own YouTube…
2017 Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize
Western Spring in conjuction with Mike Woodbridge, the executor of Jonathan Bowden’s estate are pleased to announce the fourth occasion of an award in Jonathan’s memory of a prize for oratory, and as announced last year, the cash component of the prize starting this year, has been increased to £500. 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…
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…
Alex Davies – 2016 Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize Nominee
The third nominee for this year’s Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize, is Alex Davies, one of the founders of National Action, and the speech for which he is nominated was delivered at the National Action Annual Conference in 2015. What makes this speech special is that it lasts for almost 20 minutes and was delivered without notes. Despite this, Alex’s speech flows naturally and with considerable momentum. Alex speaks with passion, using humour, irony and emphasis, and with an evident sense…
9th Annual John Tyndall Memorial Meeting
By Max Musson: For more that three decades during the close of the 20th Century, the name of one man, John Tyndall, was virtually synonymous with the cause of British nationalism and it is only fitting therefore that for the ninth successive year since his untimely death in 2005, John Tyndall’s memory is honoured at a memorial meeting of British nationalists here in Britain. And so it is that through the auspices of the nationalist monthly…