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2,582 words

John Braine
The Vodi
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1959
Kansas City, Mo.: Valancourt Books, 2013

“The Vodi were all alike, small and ferret-faced with no more identity than amoebae. There wasn’t really such a thing as a Vodi; there was only the Vodi.”

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

Jonathan Bowden

Bill Hopkins, 1928–2011

59:34 / 9,640 words

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Editor’s Note:

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, Bill Hopkins, 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 Divine and the Decay, white dispossession | 3 Responses

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Interview with Bill Hopkins

Jonathan Bowden

Bill Hopkins, photographed by Ida Kar, 1955

7,100 words

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 It was as though someone had stuck a vast syringe into the arm of the nation and all the energy had been withdrawn from it.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 Bill Hopkins, British nationalism, Colin Wilson, England, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, interviews, literature, pornography, reprints, The Divine and the Decay | 2 Responses

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

Revilo Oliver

1,082 words

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 Bill Hopkins, book reviews, fascism, Friedrich Nietzsche, literature, North American New Right, reprints, Revilo Oliver, Sir Oswald Mosley, 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

928 words

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, Bill Hopkins, commemorations, Jonathan Bowden, literature, North American New Right, originals | 7 Responses

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Selected Poems of Bill Hopkins

Jonathan Bowden

Bill Hopkins photographed by Ida Kar, 1955

293 words

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 …