A move to jail British National Party leader Nick Griffin was adjourned today at the High Court.

He survived interrogations at the hands of heavyweight journalists relatively unscathed, but in the end it was the hail of shoes and eggs which greeted Tony Blair at the first public signing of his memoirs which persuaded him to cut short his publicity tour.

Tony Blair today cancelled a high-profile signing session of his new memoir in central London amid concerns over planned protests.

Nick Griffin's leadership threatened by crisis in far-right politics

It is starting to look as though last year's elections for the European Parliament marked the start of the British National Party's decline, rather than a new stage in its ascendancy.

Tories crashed to landslide defeats in the latest council by-elections.

Just a fifth of the comedians on the Edinburgh Fringe are women but, as Alice Jones discovers, they include the acts who have had the courage to rise to the challenge of the new landscape in Parliament and the wider world

British and Japanese ultranationalists will shrug off protests from war veterans in an unlikely show of solidarity at a controversial Tokyo memorial today, on the 65th anniversary of Japan's surrender in the Second World War.

Tories made their first council by-election gain from Labour since May's change of government.

BNP party leader Nick Griffin was denied entry to an afternoon tea party with the Queen earlier today after Buckingham Palace accused the far-right MEP of using his invite for political purposes.

Notebook

He is the elusive Scarlet Pimpernel of cyberspace whose website has been behind some of the most remarkable scoops in recent years. But ever since an American soldier was arrested for allegedly leaking video footage of a helicopter attack in Baghdad, Wikileaks' founder, Julian Assange, has been keeping a low profile.

A dress to die for

I was saddened to hear this week that the former Conservative MP Angela Rumbold had died. I had lunch with her once when she was an education minister.

Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National Party, has secured an invitation to a garden party at Buckingham Palace.