Griffin gets his moment...but still looks like a bell

BNP leader Nick Griffin was among guests appearing on Question Time this evening.

It has been the most talked and written about TV event of the week already and it will be no surprise to find the panel show receiving a far higher audience share than usual.

Hundreds of anti-fascist campaigners protested outside Television Centre during the show's recording, while 25 protesters successfully broke police lines to enter the Wood Lane building.

The show has not yet been broadcast at the time of writing, but BBC News 24 has been trailing clips of the show. Griffin comes across as smugly repellent and laughably anachronistic as ever.

His racist views are loathsome and idiotic to anyone but committed monoculturalists, but who wants to be one of the those? OK, six per cent of people who voted during the European elections. More fool them.

But Nick (how convenient it is that your name rhymes with the slang term for a male member), you may be proud of the publicity this mainstream media appearance has won you and your party. You may win the odd seat with the support of bigots, but you will never gain power in London. After all, this city's residents number than 50 non-indigenous communities of more than 10,000 people and comprise a population which speaks 300 languages.

While I'm caning your forename out of spite, there is something interesting about your surname. A griffin is a fictional beast that guards treasure.

Maybe I'm clutching at straws but with your dedication to an imagined time of racial purity, you're a real Griffin that guards what you innacurately believe to be treasure - a nation of white people.

Confused, sad and woefully misguided. You make Boris Johnson look like a model politician.

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On a lighter note. If I was in a band, we would use this as our intro music. Imagine walking on to this. Wicked.

Jokes denied by admin agro

This rather moody photo of Hammersmith Bridge sums up today's oppressive climate better than it did on Sunday.

Schlaping down the District Line to well-to-do West London is not this reprobate's usual MO but the aim was to watch Britain's most famous misanthrope present a new episode of his comedy panel show.

Alas the trot to Riverside Studios was a waste because of the badly organised ticketing system. The filming was heavily oversubscribed. The only option was to make like a weary production crew and sack it off with drinks at the lairy Irish pub opposite the studios.

I want my money, man

Unless someone steps to your friends or family in some heinous fashion, real-life violence is only really acceptable in the boxing ring. But in animation, even beyond cinema, all sorts of liberties can be taken. This is a scene from the Patriot Games episode of Family Guy first broadcast in January 2006 but it's still surely one of the funniest 62 seconds of TV around.