Support for the party has increased in the last month, a survey for The Daily Telegraph indicated.

The findings will lead to accusations that the BBC’s decision to invite the far-Right MEP on to its flagship current affairs programme may have backfired by giving him a national platform.

The YouGov poll was taken hours after Mr Griffin’s appearance on Thursday, before which anti-fascist protesters rioted outside BBC Television Centre in London.

The survey found that 22 per cent of voters would “seriously consider” voting for the BNP in a future local, general or European election. This included four per cent who said they would “definitely” consider voting for the party, three per cent who would “probably” consider it, and 15 per cent who said they were “possible” BNP voters.

Two-thirds said they would not consider voting for the party “under any circumstances” with the rest unsure.

Mr Griffin’s performance, during which he was challenged about his views on the Holocaust, immigration, Islam and homosexuality, has divided the political establishment. Some senior figures criticised the BBC for inviting him on to the programme.

David Lammy, the Higher Education Minister and one of the first black men to serve in a British government, gave warning of a potential rise in racist and anti-Semitic attacks, saying he was “very worried about the days which will follow”.

More than half of those questioned said they agreed with the BNP, or thought that it “had a point” in wishing to “speak up for the interests of the indigenous, white British people … which successive governments have done far too little to protect.”

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Despite the poster clearly stating that children of all religions could “come along and have fun”, she was told she could not put the poster up at Jubilee Library in Brighton.

Mrs Oghan, who runs the Sunday school at St Mary’s Church in the city centre, said: “Anyone in the community, of whatever faith, should be able to put up a poster in their local library so that people know what is going on.

“But I was told my poster could not be displayed because it had religious content.

“Many Christians in the community are already too frightened to speak up.”

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John Harris, Professor of Bioethics at the University of Manchester, said that it was “not rational to be against human enhancement” and that the drugs could help people become better educated.

“Smart drugs” are increasingly being used by students to improve their exam grades.

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But for the latest instalment of the BBC show, producers have reinvented Friar Tuck – as a black marital arts expert.

The fighting monk is played by Criminal Justice actor David Harewood, who had to undergo gruelling training sessions for the role.

The image overhaul appears to be keeping in line with some interpretations that Tuck was physically fit and ‘proficient with clubbes and staves.’

But the radical transformation has sparked fury among professors who believe the portrayal is historically inaccurate.
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CNN cut out the introduction where Mr Blitzer called Mr Duke KKK leader 11 times.

WOLF BLITZER: Joining us now live from Tehran is the former Louisiana state representative, David Duke.
Mr. Duke, thanks very much for coming in. What do you say to those who say — who charge, and there are many, that you’re there in Tehran at this Holocaust conference simply because you hate Jews?

DAVID DUKE: Well, first off, Mr. Blitzer, I resent the introduction you made of me. You mentioned the Ku Klux Klan 11 times. That was over 30 — well, 30 years ago in my life, and since that time I got elected to the House of Representatives, I became — and I received a full doctorate, I have been a teacher, I have one of the best selling books in the world.

And you interview many former communists in governments all over the world and you don’t introduce them by saying former communist and certainly not 11 times. I think you’re biased because you’re a former lobbyist for AIPAC. You’re a Jewish extremist, supporter of Israel, so you want to bias anyone who criticizes Zionism.

BLITZER: Well, do you hate Jews?

DUKE: No, I don’t. Do you hate people who don’t want to be controlled? Do you hate Americans who don’t want the Israeli lobby to have Americans fight and die and thousands maimed because Israel wants it in the Middle East? We have a war in Iraq because Israel wanted that war, not for American interests.

They lied to us about weapons of mass destruction, and now they’re trying to get America into war against Iran, and I think it would be a tragedy for this country, a tragedy for the world. And you don’t like what I say against Zionism so you want to talk about the Ku Klux Klan rather than the issues facing the world…

BLITZER: Do you…

DUKE: … the terrorism of the Israel state for instance.

BLITZER: Do you believe, Mr. Duke, that there was a Holocaust?

DUKE: I’m sorry? I believe, sir, that the only way we can know whether there was a Holocaust or the nature of it is freedom of speech. I don’t think we should be locking people in prison in Europe, even elderly people in their 80s, because they dare to have a different opinion about an historical event.

The American government shouldn’t be saying that the Iran conference — the Iran conference was a conference for freedom of speech. I heard many mainstream Holocaust speakers at this conference, many. This conference allowed freedom of speech on the issue.

The American government and Tony Blair and George Bush should be saying its a disgrace that David Irving, a worldwide historian with books in almost every library in the world, is in prison right now in Austria because he said something the Zionists don’t like about the Second World War.

BLITZER: Do believe in a two state solution to the Israeli- Palestinian conflict, a new state of Palestine living side by side with the state of Israel?

DUKE: I think that’s probably the best solution. I think you have to ask the people who live there, of both Israel and the Arab countries. But I know one thing. You can’t impose a solution from the Zionist’s domination of American foreign policy.

Pearl and people like Wolfowitz, Feith, Wurmser, Kristol, Abrams — we can go on and on. It sounds like a Jewish wedding. They have set American policy and they have hurt American interests in the Middle East. Just as I have said for years, as Walt and Mearsheimer of Harvard have said, it’s a fact. And we are dying right now in Iraq because we’re there for Israel’s interests. We’ve gotten no oil out of this war. I said — I went around the world, around the country before this war, and said there were no weapons of mass destruction.

BLITZER: Well, let me interrupt for a moment, Mr. Duke. As far as I know, the president of the United States, who is the commander in chief, is not Jewish. The vice president of the United States is not Jewish. The secretary of defense is not Jewish. The national security advisor to the president, not Jewish. The director of the CIA, not Jewish. Are these people simply tools of the Zionist conspiracy?

DUKE: They’re not tools of a conspiracy, but they are definitely tools of the Zionist media and political power. Even the “Washington Post” said that 60 percent of the contributions for the Republican Party come from Jewish sources. Plus, if any politician in America dares to criticize Israel, millions will go to his opponents and he will be attacked in the media where Zionists have incredible power.

Even the “Jewish Chronicle,” the “Jewish Los Angeles Times” — excuse me, not the “Los Angeles Times,” the “Jewish Times of Los Angeles” stated that four of the five conglomerates of — the largest media conglomerates are owned by Jews, and the fifth is even more pro- Israel than some of those conglomerates. We have a controlled media in the United States, and that’s why we’re not hearing the truth about this conference.

This conference is about the fact that there must be freedom of speech. And this is insane that people are being criticized. This conference is being criticized when there are people in prison right now for freedom of their conscience.

BLITZER: If there’s a controlled…

DUKE: Now, if you think that David Irving should be in prison right now in Austria — I’m asking you a question, sir.

BLITZER: Well, I’m the one who asks the questions in these interviews…

DUKE: Do you think David Irving should be in prison in Austria for voicing an opinion?

BLITZER: … and we invited you on. And the question is…

DUKE: Exactly.

BLITZER: … if we invited you on, why is there a Zionist conspiracy if we’re letting you on television right now? How do you explain that?

DUKE: How do I explain that? I think that you can’t affect the news. You’ve got — I think you have to put some spin on what’s happening in Iran.

BLITZER: But we didn’t have to invite you on CNN.

DUKE: And you want to — it’s an attack mode, always an attack mode when people like myself come on there. But you thought you could handle me with your 11 connotations of the Ku Klux Klan.

BLITZER: All right, let me…

DUKE: But you know something? You can’t handle me, and you can’t handle the truth, and the fact is, you are an agent of Zionism. You work for AIPAC…

BLITZER: Listen — all right. Listen.

DUKE: … the lobby in this country that controls Israeli policy.

BLITZER: Listen, Mr. Duke…

DUKE: You’re not an honest broken on television.

BLITZER: … I am going to read to you what Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said…

DUKE: You’re an Israeli agent.

BLITZER: All right. I’m going to read to you what Mr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, has said and then you can respond if you agree of disagree with him. “Israel must be wiped off the map and, God willing, with the force of God behind it, we shall soon experience a world without the United States and Zionism.”

That’s what he said on October 28th, 2005, according to Al- Jazeera.

DUKE: All right, first off, that’s a complete misquote. He never said wipe off the map, and he was talking about the Zionist control of the United States. In fact, I heard his last speech, and I read articles all over the world where he said Israel will be wiped off the map.

He said Israel would have a change in government just as the Soviet Union changed. Obviously, the Russian people weren’t killed. Israel wasn’t wiped out, and this was to garner hatred against Iran to support the Holocaust and maybe the nuclear strike against Iran.

BLITZER: Well, what about when he says we “shall experience a world” — when he says we should “soon experience a world without the United States”?

DUKE: I’m sorry, sir. I couldn’t hear you.

BLITZER: When he says we should “soon experience a world without the United States and Zionism.”

DUKE: I know what the translation was. He was referring to the control — Israel uses the United States as its proxy. They use the — at Mahatmir (ph) said from Malaysia, Israel is able to dominate our policy through their money, through their media control, and they’re leading us to disaster.

Richard Pearl and Paul Wolfowitz he were the formulators of the Iraq war. Pearl, Wurmser and Feith wrote a paper for Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel calling for war against Iraq, Iran, and Syria. And that’s exactly what we did. They made up the lice of weapons of mass destruction because Americans were not willing to die in thousands and spend billions of dollars for Israel’s strategic objectives. That’s the reality.

BLITZER: David Duke, we have to leave it there.

DUKE: And there are so many lies that are going on right now.

BLITZER: The satellite is about to go down. So we have to leave it right there. But you’re in Tehran.

DUKE: Well, people can find information at DavidDuke.com — DavidDuke.com.

BLITZER: I’m sure they’ll have plenty of opportunities to hear what you have to say. That’s it. David Duke joining us from Iran.

The News Corp media magnate nurtures a long-held distaste for “the establishment” but last night confided to one of the few clubs to which he does belong – The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers – that he may be among the last of a dying breed.

“Power is moving away from the old elite in our industry – the editors, the chief executives and, let’s face it, the proprietors,” said Mr Murdoch, having flown into London from New York after celebrating his 75th birthday on Saturday.

Far from mourning its passing, he evangelised about a digital future that would put that power in the hands of those already launching a blog every second, sharing photos and music online and downloading television programmes on demand. “A new generation of media consumers has risen demanding content delivered when they want it, how they want it, and very much as they want it,” he said. Indicating he had little desire to slow down despite his advancing years, he told the 603-year-old guild that he was looking forward, not back.

“It is difficult, indeed dangerous, to underestimate the huge changes this revolution will bring or the power of developing technologies to build and destroy – not just companies but whole countries.”

The owner of Fox News added: “Never has the flow of information and ideas, of hard news and reasoned comment, been more important. The force of our democratic beliefs is a key weapon in the war against religious fanaticism and the terrorism it breeds.”

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Iran Ramping Up Missile Production

VIENNA (AP)–Iran has ramped up its production of missiles capable of carrying atomic warheads, a key opposition figure said Thursday.

Providing what he said Thursday were secret details of those missile programs, Iranian opposition figure Alireza Jafarzadeh told The Associated Press that Iran had “significantly increased the production line” of its Shahab 3 missiles last year, and was now turning out 90 a year – more than four times its previous production rate.

The most advanced Shahab has a range of 1,900 kilometers (nearly 1,200 miles), he said. That is enough to target arch-foe Israel.

Working together with North Korean experts at the Hemmat Missile Industries complex in Tehran, Iranian engineers also were “70%” finished on prototype Ghadar 101 and Ghadar 110 missiles, which have a range of up to 3,000 kilometers (1,800 miles), he said, putting central Europe within reach. These missiles also were “ready for launch” within 30 minutes, compared to several hours for the Shahab, he said.

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[Below is the lie about Saddam and his 45 mins armagedden plot. It would probably take Saddam more than 45 mins to get dressed in the moning-ed]

Intelligence chief defends 45 mins claim

One of Britain’s senior intelligence advisers has defended the claim that Iraq could launch weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes.

Former MI6 chief John Scarlett, now chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, said the 45 minutes claim came from a single source quoting a senior Iraq military official – suggesting the information was second-hand.

People were not at all unhappy about using single source information, he told the Hutton inquiry into the death of Dr David Kelly.

And in this particular case it was judged that the new intelligence was consistent with established judgements on Iraq’s capability, he said.

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[We all know what happen to Dr Kelly....I suspect that other potential whistle blowers will be keeping their mouths shut on the run up to the war with Iran-ed]

Kelly said 45 mins claim ‘unwise’

Dr David Kelly told a key parliamentary committee the day before he went missing that it had been “unwise” for the 45 minute claim to be included in the government dossier on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction.

The full text of Dr Kelly’s appearance before the Intelligence and Security committee has now been published on the website of the Hutton inquiry – which is looking into the circumstances surrounding his death.

Dr Kelly appeared before the nine-member parliamentary committee in private on 16 July, the day before he went missing and two days before he was found dead, after apparently committing suicide.

The session came after he was named as the government’s suspected source for a BBC report claiming that the dossier had been “sexed up” at the behest of Downing Street against the wishes of the intelligence services.

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Top 20 best lies about Iraq

Iraq was responsible for the 11 September Attacks

Iraq and al-Qa’ida were working together

Iraq was seeking uranium from Africa for a “reconstituted” nuclear weapons programme

Iraq was trying to import aluminium tubes to develop nuclear weapons

Iraq still had vast stocks of chemical and biological weapons from the first Gulf War

Iraq retained up to 20 missiles which could carry chemical or biological warheads, with a range which would threaten British forces in cyprus

Saddam Hussein had the wherewithal to develop smallpox

US and British claims were supported by the UN Inspectors

Previous weapons inspections had failed

Iraq was obstructing the inspectors

Iraq could deploy its weapons of mass destruction in 45 minutes

The “dodgy” intelligence dossier

The war would be a walkover

Umm Qasr was captured quickly

The people of Basra rose up against Saddam

The “rescue” of Private Jessica Lynch

Troops would face chemical and biological weapons

Interrogiation of scientists would yield the location of WMD

Iraq’s oil money would go to Iraqis

Weapons of mass destruction were found

Windows Vista is due to be rolled out later this year. Cambridge academic Ross Anderson told MPs it would mean more computer files being encrypted.

He urged the government to look at establishing “back door” ways of getting around encryptions.

The Home Office later told the BBC News website it is in talks with Microsoft.

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