"Our position is that 'good fences make good neighbours' … we want to defuse the 'Clash of Civilisations'." This is the core message that comes across in an interview that Nick Griffin has just supplied to a Turkish news agency. The interview in full is an important and carefully considered statement of the British National Party's attitude to Islam and the Muslim world. 

By Stephen Palmer – The BBC has launched a nationwide campaign to get more ethnic "minorities" to compete on the quiz show Mastermind, but it was disappointed when its first specially staged audition only attracted hideously white contestants.