Later Activities
Bowden's book Right was published by the European Books Society in 1993 and brought praised from Gregory Lauder-Frost in The Revolutionary Conservative. Bowden was also said to be prominent in the milieu responsible for the emergence of Right Now! magazine.
He later joined the Freedom Party, for which he acted as Treasurer for a short period, and subsequently, with Adrian Davies, was a member of the Bloomsbury Forum. Bowden contributed an essay (Bill)"Hopkins - An Angry Young Man" to the book of 20 essays Standardbearers - British Roots of the New Right which he, with Adrian Davies and Eddy Butler, also edited. The book carried a Foreword by a former Vice-President of the Monday Club, Professor Antony Flew.
Bowden went on to join the British National Party (BNP), and was for a period its Cultural Officer. In July 2007, he resigned from the BNP following a bitter dispute in which an associate of BNP leader Nick Griffin made defamatory allegations against Bowden on a blog. It has been claimed by Martin Webster that Bowden was forced out of the party due to his support for Chris Jackson, who made an unsuccessful attempt to replace Griffin as leader. After September 2008, Bowden resumed speaking at BNP events, but never rejoined the party. Since the May 2010 elections he had no further connection to the BNP.
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