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…
Colin Robertson – 2018 Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize Nominee
I am pleased to announce the fifth nominee for the 2018 Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize, a vlogger who has made a name for himself across the Western World, Colin Robertson, aka Millennial Woes. Colin’s speaking style is intimate and delivered at a measured pace, consistent with reading rather than unprompted oration, and Colin apologises for this at the beginning of his speech. However this is the speaking style that has made him famous and which has given…
Reverend James Costello – 2018 Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize Nominee
The fourth nominee for the 2018 Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize is one of the leading members of the Creativity Movement in the UK, the Reverend James Costello, who is nominated for a speech he made, incorporating a dramatic performance from Shakespeare’s Henry 5th. James was speaking at a meeting organised by Boadicea Events at Blackpool 21st October 2017. We believe James has an amateur dramatic background and because of this has memorised the speech from Henry 5th as a…
Peter Rushton – 2018 Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize Nominee
I am pleased to announce the third nominee for the 2018 Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize, Peter Rushton, the Assistant Editor of Heritage & Destiny magazine, who has been nominated for a speech he made at the John Tyndall Memorial Meeting that was held in Preston during October of last year. Peter is a very popular and well practiced public speaker who has very clear diction and has learned to speak in a voice that conveys authority. He makes…
Mark Collett – 2018 Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize Nominee
We are pleased to announce that the second nominee for the 2018 Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize is another leading personality within British nationalism — at one time the youth leader and head of publicity for the British National Party — now an author and regular podcaster and speaker at high profile nationalist events, Mark Collett. Mark has been nominated for the excellent speech he made at last year’s John Tyndall Memorial Meeting and what was probably…
Jez Turner – 2018 Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize Nominee
I am pleased to announce the first of this year’s nominees for the Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize, the ever popular and gregarious Jez Turner, the founder and Director of the London Forum. This is the fourth time that Jez has been nominated for the Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize and our readers will be aware that he was last year’s winner. He is one of the most accomplished and best known speakers in British nationalism today. In…
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…
‘Extremists, Studies in Metapolitics’ – Collected transcripts of speeches by Jonathan Bowden, edited by Greg Johnson
[This book contains] transcripts of Jonathan Bowden’s lectures on eight Right-wing metapolitical extremists: Thomas Carlyle, Gabriele D’ Annunzio, Charles Maurras, Martin Heidegger, Julius Evola, Savitri Devi, Yukio Mishima, and Maurice Cowling, as well as his speech “Vanguardism: Hope for the Future,” all of them delivered at the meetings of The London Forum, the London New Right, and similar events. All of these speeches illustrate three very important truths that Jonathan visited again and again. First, metapolitics…
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…
Richard Edmonds – 2017 Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize Nominee
Nominated for a third time for the Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize is the 2015 winner and veteran nationalist campaigner Richard Edmonds. At the ripe old age of seventy-four, Richard still exhibits great passion and energy. His speaking style is very animated, employing vivid facial expressions and hand gesticulations in order to emphasise his message. Richard also uses repetition in order to emphasise key points and in order to slow the pace of his delivery and…