2014 Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize – The Winner Announced!
By Max Musson: At a prestigious central London hotel yesterday, the Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize sponsored by Western Spring was awarded for the first time at a meeting of the London Forum in front of a large audience of London’s most prominent nationalist activists, speakers, writers and politicians. Western Spring conceived the idea for this award more than a year ago, as a means developing the skills base of nationalist speakers generally, and also as…
Sean Gabb – 2014 Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize Nominee
By Max Musson: The seventh nominee for the 2014 Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize is director of the Libertarian Alliance, Sean Gabb, nominated for an excellent thought provoking speech he delivered at the 48th New Right Meeting in the autumn of 2013. The libertarian Alliance is a well-known civil liberties think-tank based in the British Isles. Opposed to multi-culturalism and immigration, Sean Gabb famously called for the so-called Commission for Racial Equality to be shut down. Mr. Gabb is the author…
Mike Newland – 2014 Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize Nominee
By Max Musson: We are pleased to announce the sixth nominee for the 2014 Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize: Mike Newland of the British Democratic Party for his fluid and highly informative speech regarding the pitfalls of Globalisation, which he made in October 2013 at the 47th New Right Meeting in London. Mike is not an obvious choice for such a nomination because he is not cast in the rabble rousing tradition that people often think…
Kevin Bryan – 2014 Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize Nominee
By Max Musson: I am pleased to announce the fifth nominee for the 2014 Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize. Kevin Bryan, the Chairman of the National Front has been nominated for the rousing speech he made last November following the Annual National Front Remembrance Day Parade. Kevin’s speech can be heard at about 17:55 in the following video. Clearly Kevin is a forceful speaker and his election to the Chairmanship of the NF has provided him with…
Richard Edmonds – 2014 Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize Nominee
By Max Musson: Following a number of messages from our wide readership proposing his nomination, we are pleased to announce that Richard Edmonds has been nominated for the 2014 Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize for the speech he made to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the BNP’s first election victory, when Derek Beackon was elected as a local councillor for Millwall Ward, Tower Hamlets in 1993. Richard, who is now a member of the National Front, is…
Kevin Layzell – 2014 Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize Nominee
By Max Musson: I am pleased to announce the third nominee for the 2014 Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize: Young BNP Organiser Kevin Layzell, for an excellent speech delivered while addressing London BNP during December 2013. Kevin is one of the rising stars of the BNP, demonstrating wisdom, common sense and self-confidence way beyond his years. Despite still being just 19 years of age, he has already been hotly tipped to be a future leader of the BNP.…
Alex Kurtagic – 2014 Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize Nominee
By Max Musson: I announce the nomination of well known and highly popular nationalist writer, speaker, thinker, artist and raconteur, Alex Kurtagic for the 2014 Jonathan Bowden Oratory Prize, for the speech he made at the London Forum in April 2013 in memory of Jonathan Bowden and to mark the first anniversary of Jonathan’s death. Alex is the author of a novel entitled ‘Mister’, he is also a reproducer of classical books and is a frequent contributor…
2014 Jonathan Bowden Oratory Award
An announcement by Max Musson: As the second anniversary of Jonathan Bowden’s tragic death approaches, and what would have been his 52nd birthday, Western Spring in co-operation with Mike Woodbridge, the executor of Jonathan’s estate, would like to announce the very first occasion of an award in Jonathan’s memory, of a prize for oratory, in what will become an annual event. Members of the nationalist community are hereby invited to submit to this website, the name of any nationalist speaker…
One Fine Morning… : Musings on the ‘Dangerous’ Poetry of Robert E Howard
By Jez Turner: A long bow and a strong bow, and let the sky grow dark! The cord to the nock, the shaft to the ear, and the King of Koth for a mark! [Song of the Bossonian Archers] Robert E Howard, is very much in vogue at the moment among Identitarians. For instance see the highly recommended Jonathan Bowden ‘Pulp Fascism’, edited by Greg Johnson, (Counter Currents Publishing, San Francisco 2013). This book contains…