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One of the people whom I interviewed for my biography of Jonathan Bowden was Nick Griffin, the former leader of the British National Party. Griffin appointed Bowden, its most popular orator, as the party’s Cultural Officer. Griffin remarked something to the effect of how a lot of people kind of worship Bowden, and if you write his biography — if you present the Bowden of History, not the Bowden of Faith — then you will upset these kinds of people. I was later amazed by how prescient Griffin had been. (more…)