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Perused with Pleasure in 2018
My Top 5 Books

Margot Metroland

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I was using my Spectator-co-uk digital subscription to search for odds and ends in its wonky archive. What, I wondered, did the Speccy have to say about the Angry Young Men in the late 1950s? Better yet, what did they have on Colin Wilson and his friend, the ever-elusive Bill Hopkins?

Not an awful lot, as it turns out. Read more …

Published: December 27, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2018 Roundups, articles, book reviews, Charles De Gaulle, Colin Wilson, KGB, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Margot Metroland, North American New Right, originals, T. S. Eliot | 4 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 208
John Morgan on Colin Wilson

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Greg Johnson and John Morgan convene another episode of Counter-Currents Weekly. Read more …

Published: January 5, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Colin Wilson, Counter-Currents Radio Weekly, existentialism, Greg Johnson, John Morgan, Jonathan Bowden, philosophy, podcasts, the occult | 8 Responses

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The Search for a Usable Past

Margot Metroland

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Enoch Powell

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Standardbearers: British Roots of the New Right
Edited by Jonathan Bowden, Eddy Butler, and Adrian Davies.
With a Foreword by Professor Antony Flew
Beckenham, Kent: The Bloomsbury Forum, 1999

Somewhere between the “hug-a-hoodie” Toryism of David Cameron’s Conservatives, and those far-right parties considered beyond the pale, is believed to lie a broad “respectable” middle ground of British nationalist politics. Read more …

Published: September 1, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Adrian Davies, book reviews, conservatism, England, Enoch Powell, Jonathan Bowden, Margot Metroland, North American New Right, Northern Ireland, originals | 1 Response

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“Божиите маймуни“ на Уиндъм Люис

Jonathan Bowden

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English original here

Уиндъм Люис
The Apes of God

“Божиите маймуни“ (Apes of God) се оказва една от най-унищожителните сатири публикувани на английски език от времето на Драйдън и Поуп насам. Read more …

Published: August 21, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, feminism, in Bulgarian, in translation, Jonathan Bowden, modern art, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, Wyndham Lewis | Leave a comment

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Ways Without a Precedent

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One of the aims of the North American New Right is to promote a revival of the Right-wing artistic and literary subculture that gave us such 20th-century giants as D. H. Lawrence, Gabriele D’Annunzio, F. T. Marinetti, Knut Hamsun, W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, Henry Williamson, Roy Campbell, and H. P. Lovecraft (all profiled in Kerry Bolton’s Artists of the Right). Read more …

Published: March 19, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Angry Young Men, art, articles, cultural renewal, decadence, literature, North American New Right, religion, reprints, tragedy | 4 Responses

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The Prophet of Exhaustion
Being Yet Another Remembrance of
Bill Hopkins (1927–2012), Part 2

Margot Metroland

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Part 2 of 2

Bill Hopkins 4 (1)

Bill Hopkins

3. “The corrupt vigour of fascism.”

In early 1958, Time magazine ran a humorous squib titled “Sloane Square Stomp.”[9] It told how Colin Wilson (and presumably Bill) had attended a premiere of their friend Stuart Holroyd’s new play at the Royal Court Theatre. Bill and Colin’s onetime friend Christopher Logue stood up in the stalls with Kenneth Tynan, denouncing Holroyd and Wilson as fascists. During the interval, this led to a shoving match in a nearby bar. The whole thing was a tempest in a teapot, Read more …

Published: March 5, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged A Clockwork Orange, Angry Young Men, Anthony Burgess, articles, Colin Wilson, David McCalden, fascism, Jonathan Bowden, literature, Margot Metroland, memoirs, nihilism, North American New Right, originals, religion, Revilo P. Oliver, Sir Oswald Mosley, Stuart Holroyd, The Divine and the Decay | 5 Responses

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The Prophet of Exhaustion
Being Yet Another Remembrance of
Bill Hopkins (1927–2012), Part 1

Margot Metroland

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Bill Hopkins, photographed by Ida Kar, 1955

Hopkins, around the time of Declaration and The Divine and the Decay (1957).

(Told in the discursive spirit, if not quite the style, of Jonathan Bowden.)

“The evidence of exhaustion stares out from the columns of the daily newspapers. The references to ‘Angry Young Men’ for example, record a general astonishment at the vigour of simply being angry. Another instance is the hero-worship of the late James Dean, who posthumously remains as the embodiment of Youth’s violent rebuttal of a society grown pointless. That the rejection is equally pointless does not appear to matter; the sincerity redeems it.”

— Bill Hopkins, “Ways Without a Precedent,” in Declaration, 1957 Read more …

Published: March 4, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Angry Young Men, articles, Colin Wilson, David McCalden, Jonathan Bowden, literature, Margot Metroland, memoirs, North American New Right, originals, Revilo Oliver | 14 Responses

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Angry Young Woman:
Isabel Colegate’s The Blackmailer

James J. O'Meara

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Isabel Colegate
The Blackmailer
Richmond, Va.: Valancourt, 2014

“If you want to call it God, the divine, the energy in all things, the force that created the universe, nature, whatever you call it, I believe it’s fury not love.” — Jonathan Bowden

“What we feel for each other is really a passion for power,” said Judith. “We want to destroy each other by making the other fall in love with us.” — Isabel Colegate, The Blackmailer Read more …

Published: November 6, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Angry Young Men, articles, book reviews, Colin Wilson, Friedrich Nietzsche, James J. O'Meara, Jonathan Bowden, literature, New Thought, North American New Right, originals, The Divine and the Decay | 2 Responses

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Stewart Home:
Communism, Nihilism, Neoism, & Decadence

Jonathan Bowden

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The following text is a transcript by V.S. of one of Jonathan Bowden’s most entertaining lectures, which was delivered to the 25th New Right meeting in London on February 13, 2010. Although Stewart Home is the principal subject, Bowden romps through a wide field of politically correct theories, ultra-Left sects, and decadent forms of modern art.

Published: August 18, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anarchism, antifa, Antonio Gramsci, articles, biological race differences, Communism, critical theory, decadence, deconstruction, Filippo Marinetti, futurism, hermeneutics, Jacques Derrida, John Lennon, Jonathan Bowden, Martin Heidegger, Marxism, metapolitics, Mikhail Bakunin, modern art, nihilism, North American New Right, originals, Situationism, Stewart Home, structuralism, surrealism, William Shakespeare | 9 Responses

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A Leveling Wind:
Reading Camus’ The Stranger

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Albert Camus’ The Stranger had a powerful effect on me when I first read it at the age of 18. Recently I had cause to pick it up again when I re-read Bill Hopkins’ The Leap! (a.k.a. The Divine and the Decay) with the aim of writing an essay on it. Hopkins’ manner of constructing a plot out of seemingly trivial, tedious, and disconnected events that suddenly come together in an emotionally shattering climax — a climax that seems utterly surprising yet in hindsight utterly inevitable — brought to mind The Stranger. Read more …

Published: June 3, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Albert Camus, articles, atheism, book reviews, existentialism, Greg Johnson, literature, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, The Divine and the Decay | 9 Responses

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A Heroic Vision for Our Time:
The Life & Ideas of Colin Wilson

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Colin Wilson, the English author of well over a hundred books on subjects as diverse as philosophy, literary criticism, criminology, and the occult, as well as many novels, essays and short stories, passed away last Thursday (December 5, 2013) at 11:45 PM local time, in the presence of his wife, Joy, and his daughter, Sally. He was 82.

Published: December 12, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Colin Wilson, existentialism, John Morgan, literature, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Sir Oswald Mosley | 12 Responses

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Remembering Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson & Bill Hopkins

Jonathan Bowden

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In memory of Colin Wilson, who died on December 5th, we are publishing following excerpt from “Bill Hopkins: An Anti-Humanist Life,” a transcript by V. S. of a lecture by Jonathan Bowden given at the 7th New Right meeting in London on April 8, 2006. We will publish a fuller tribute to Wilson’s life and work as soon as possible. Read more …

Published: December 10, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Colin Wilson, Jonathan Bowden, North American New Right, originals | 5 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 58
Bill Hopkins & the Angry Young Men

Jonathan Bowden

Bill Hopkins, 1928–2011

Bill Hopkins, 1928–2011

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The following text is transcript by V. S. of a lecture by Jonathan Bowden given at the 7th New Right meeting in London on April 8, 2006 entitled “Bill Hopkins: An Anti-Humanist Life.” Read more …

Published: July 26, 2013 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Albert Camus, articles, Colin Wilson, egalitarianism, fascism, humanism, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jonathan Bowden, modern art, North American New Right, originals, podcasts, political correctness, Robert Brasillach, Stuart Holroyd, the Angry Young Men, The Divine and the Decay, white dispossession | 3 Responses

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Wyndham Lewis’ The Apes of God

Jonathan Bowden

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Wyndham Lewis
The Apes of God

The Apes of God happens to be one of the most devastating satires to be published in the English language since the days of Dryden and Pope. It appeared in a Private Press edition (prior to general release), and at over 600 pages it was the size of your average London telephone directory. Read more …

Published: July 21, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, feminism, Jonathan Bowden, modern art, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, Wyndham Lewis | 4 Responses

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Bill Hopkins’ The Divine & the Decay

Jonathan Bowden

Franz von Stuck, “The Spirit of Victory”

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Bill Hopkins was one of the “Angry Young Men” group of writers who emerged in the 1950s. He was the most prominent of the “Outsiders” trio amongst the “Angry Young Men”—a groupuscule which consisted of himself, Colin Wilson, and Stuart Holroyd. Read more …

Published: June 7, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jonathan Bowden, literature, North American New Right, reprints, The Divine and the Decay | 5 Responses

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Interview with Bill Hopkins

Jonathan Bowden

Bill Hopkins, photographed by Ida Kar, 1955

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JB: Were you an angry young man?

BH: Very much. I think everybody was very angry and frustrated during the 1950s and from the end of the war onwards actually. The whole country was in a state of stagnation, everything was pointless and meaningless. It was as though someone had stuck a vast syringe into the arm of the nation and all the energy had been withdrawn from it. We were all in limbo. Read more …

Published: June 7, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged British nationalism, Colin Wilson, England, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, interviews, literature, pornography, reprints, the Angry Young Men, The Divine and the Decay | 2 Responses

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Beyond Good and Evil:
Bill Hopkins’ The Divine & the Decay

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We need to be reminded from time to time of the crucial problem that must be solved if our race is to survive, the Jews’ subversion and inversion of our morality that Nietzsche so clearly analysed in Zur Genealogie der Moral.[1] Read more …

Published: June 7, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, literature, North American New Right, reprints, Revilo Oliver, Sir Oswald Mosley, the Angry Young Men, The Divine and the Decay | 1 Response

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Remembering Bill Hopkins, 1928–2011

Jonathan Bowden

Bill Hopkins photographed by Ida Kar, 1955

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A great man is dead.

Bill Hopkins (1928–2011), one of Britain’s most estimable Right wing intellectuals, died on Thursday, May 6, of heart and kidney failure in a north London hospital. He was born into a Welsh theatrical family in 1928. His father was the music hall artiste Ted Hopkins while his mother happened to be the theatrical beauty Violette Broderick. Read more …

Published: June 7, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Jonathan Bowden, literature, North American New Right, originals, the Angry Young Men | 7 Responses

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Selected Poems of Bill Hopkins

Jonathan Bowden

Bill Hopkins photographed by Ida Kar, 1955

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XANADU

The name of a mythical nowhere place
where impossible dreams may be enacted
is commemorated in double doors
of delusion
and windows awry
that portray
— in abstraction —
the magnificence of its happy madness. Read more …

Published: June 7, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, Jonathan Bowden, literature, North American New Right, poems, poetry, reprints, the Angry Young Men | Leave a comment

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