They are talking about me in the House of Commons. Well, a bloke who works in the House of Commons is talking about me, possibly whilst in the House of Commons. Tom Harris MP has written this blog calling for me to be on Question Time with my Hitler moustache, if, as they most surely must, allow Nick Griffin to go on the programme. It's an interesting proposition, though I am not sure I have the necessary knowledge or gravitas to pull it off. But I certainly think that Question Time should have Nick Griffin on their show. Not only was he democratically elected by the idiotic British public, but by silencing him one only shrouds him in mystery and makes him appear like some speaking maverick whose words are so scintillating that they can not be heard. Let him get up there and say whatever is in his tiny head, because if it's anything like anything else that the BNP have ever said it will be palpable, laughable nonsense and he can only make himself look like a prick. I have doubtless said this before but generally when people are silenced by a government or the church it is because what they are saying is true - Galileo springs to mind, as do the political prisoners around the world who are incarcerated for daring to criticise oppressive regimes or propose democracy. But the BNP have no such worthy or truthful purpose. Let them speak. What they say is wrong and their arguments fall apart under the smallest amount of examination. Are we worried that people might be stupid enough to be seduced by these lies? Perhaps they will be, but if you want democracy then you have to let stupid people have an equal say. It is up to the less feckless individuals to do their part and stop the fascists in their tracks. But we should let them speak or they gain a cachet that they don't deserve.

Freedom of speech allows all of us to have our say, providing we are not transgressing into the criminal and I think Nick Griffin should be questioned over and over again about his odious beliefs, on camera, if necessary sitting next to a man with a Hitler moustache, heiling everything he says.

For the moment, of course, I am moustacheless anyway. And now with a week's worth of stubble and beginning to look like myself again, which is a relief. If only a temporary one.

And thanks to the many, many of you who have sent me a link to the German AIDS awareness advert. It's nice in a way that all of you are keen to help me with my research into this subject and I wouldn't want you to stop sending me stuff, because a couple of times I have received emails about stuff that I didn't know about. But just to say, to save us all some time, I have seen this advert, and yes, I wish they had come to me to be in it, because they wouldn't have had to use video techniques to create the Fuhrer. And also I would have been really good at doing the acting involved. And in fact would have done it for free. But it's too late now.

Thanks to Ian Lambert for the mock up picture. Andrew and me might do our own version to help spread awareness in the UK. It's important to remember that AIDS is a danger to men, just as much as it is to attractive women. But also that you can get it from having sex with people who don't look like Hitler. And you don't get it from all people who look like Hitler.

In fact Hitler almost certainly didn't have AIDS.

By the way, I have also seen the website Cats that look like Hitler so don't bother directing me towards that either.

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