IT was right that the BBC stuck to its guns and refused to bow to pressure to scratch Nick Griffin's appearance from Question Time.

IT was right that the BBC stuck to its guns and refused to bow to pressure to scratch Nick Griffin's appearance from Question Time. Griffin obviously was buoyed by all the demonstrations going on outside Television Centre.

The BNP has received a massive publicity hit, but unless the great unwashed switch over from the pulp fiction of Sky's channels, the target audience he is trying to reach will only know about what he has said from a dozen or so words in today's Daily Sport.

- Read more now in Political Editor Graham Dines' blog.