Cheats such as Mark Owen don’t ‘love’ women, as they often claim. If you trick women and lie to them, you must hate them I feel devastated. Every time I think about it, I feel sick.

By refusing to bar BNP members from the classroom, the government is allowing these vile people to spread their hatred The BNP’s march into the mainstream moves forward. Fresh from their top-table seat on the BBC’s Question Time (which marked International Women’s Day with an all-female audience; it marked last year’s Black History Month with an invite to Nick Griffin), party members have now been told that it’s OK for them to teach our children . In a review which will shock many members of the teaching profession, not to mention ethnic-minority parents, Maurice Smith, former chief inspector of schools, concludes: “I do not believe that barring teachers or other members of the wider school workforce from membership of legitimate [sic] organisations which may promote racism is necessary.” He reaches his decision because, in the last seven years, only four teachers, and two governors, have been found to be BNP members, and only nine incidents of teachers making racist remarks or holding racist materials have been uncovered.

More than half a million travellers to be hit by strikes on successive weekends from 20 March Martin Rowson

Winnie Mandela claims ‘he let us down’ story in Evening Standard was ‘fictitious’ but paper stands by story Nelson Mandela’s ex-wife has denied criticising the former South African president in a newspaper interview over his decision to accept the Nobel peace prize. The Evening Standard ran an interview with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela on Monday in which she accused Mandela of having “let us down”. She went on to condemn his decision to accept the 1993 Nobel peace prize alongside FW de Klerk, the president of South Africa in 1990 who took the decision to release Mandela

Edward McMillan-Scott accuses David Cameron of ‘propitiating extremism abroad’ and says he fears that on Europe the Tory leader says one thing in opposition and will do another in government The former leader of the Conservatives in the European parliament has defected to the Liberal Democrats, the party announced today. Edward McMillan-Scott accused David Cameron of “propitiating extremism abroad” and said he feared the Tory leader said one thing on Europe in private but would do another in government. The MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber clashed with Cameron last year over the Conservative leader’s decision to remove his MEPs from the centre-right European People’s party and set up a new group, European Conservatives and Reformists, with controversial allies from eastern Europe.

How the British National party’s whites-only rules came to be judged unlawful Today’s ruling that the British National party’s membership policy is unlawful was the result of the Equality and Human Rights Commission challenging the party over possible breaches of anti-discrimination law. The commission wrote to the party leader, Nick Griffin, in June outlining concerns over its whites-only rules. It asked for undertakings that the party would not discriminate on the grounds of race or colour and would comply with the Race Relations Act 1976 .

It’s best paws forward as Crufts, the annual dog jamboree, gets under way at the NEC in Birmingham Rachel Dixon

Judge agrees with human rights watchdog that British National party’s rewritten criteria for joining are still racist The British National party (BNP) has been barred from taking new members after a judge ruled today that its constitution could discriminate against non-white people. Judge Paul Collins issued an injunction ordering the far-right group to comply with race equality laws, adding that “the membership list will have to be closed until then”

Two leaders stress need for close co-operation to stay ‘bang in the middle’ of Europe Gordon Brown today described Britain’s alliance with France as an “entente formidable” as he and Nicolas Sarkozy stressed the need for close co-operation and to stay “bang in the middle” of Europe.

Party leader accuses education officials of taking no action against teachers promoting leftwing politics The British National party (BNP) has accused local education authorities of taking no action against “leftwing teachers … promoting their own politically correct brand of politics” as it welcomed ministers’ decision not to ban BNP members from the profession