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Nicholas John Griffin is a British politician who represented North West England as a Member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2014. He served as chairman and then president of the far-right British National Party from 1999 to 2014, when he was expelled from the party.
Known for
- The Battle for Barking — Himself2010
- HARDtalk1997
- GMTV — Self1993
- The Cook Report1987
- Dispatches1987
- Question Time — Self - Panellist1979
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Nick Griffin is an American stand-up comedian and writer. Griffin began his stand up career at the age of 19 in Kansas City and Bozoville, KN before moving to New York in 1990, performing in midnight shows at Greenwich Village. He then moved to Los Angeles, becoming a staff writer for The Keenen Ivory Wayans Show in 1997 and later became the head writer for Bobby Slayton and Sue Murphy’s morning radio show. Griffin made his first major TV appearance on The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, an
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5 total works indexed
- The Satisfaction With Life Scale
· 1985 · cited 23,410x
- PGC-1α-responsive genes involved in oxidative phosphorylation are coordinately downregulated in human diabetes
· 2003 · cited 9,276x
- Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2020 report of the Lancet Commission
· 2020 · cited 9,207x
- Principal components analysis corrects for stratification in genome-wide association studies
· 2006 · cited 9,174x
- The diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease
· 2011 · cited 9,149x
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Quotes
- “There is no doubt that hundreds, probably thousands of Jews were shot to death in Eastern Europe because they were, rightly or wrongly, seen as Communists or potential partisans or partisan supporters. That was awful. But this nonsense about gas chambers is exposed as a total lie.”
- “I do not just believe I am right, I know I am right.”
- “Western values, freedom of speech, democracy and rights for women are incompatible with Islam, which is a cancer eating away at our freedoms and our democracy and rights for our women and something needs to be done about it.”
- “[The Koran is] not a religious book, but a manual for conquering other people's countries.”
- “The man's not perfect, but he's streets ahead of any other possible winner.”
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Key facts
- President
- Roberto Fiore
- Preceded by
- John Tyndall
- Succeeded by
- Adam Walker
- Born
- Nicholas John Griffin , ( 1959-03-01 ) 1 March 1959 (age 67) , Barnet , Hertfordshire, England
- Party
- Alliance for Peace and Freedom (since 2015)
- Other political affiliations
- British National Party , (1995–2014) , National Front (1974–1989)
- Spouse
- Jackie Griffin ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1985 )
- Alma mater
- Downing College, Cambridge
- Profession
- Politician
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Encyclopedic overview
Nicholas John Griffin (born 1 March 1959) is a British far-right politician who was chairman of the British National Party (BNP) from 1999 to 2014, and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for North West England from 2009 to 2014. Following this, he was president of the BNP between July and October 2014, when he was expelled from the party.
Born in Barnet, Griffin was educated at Woodbridge School in Suffolk. He joined the National Front at the age of 14 and, following his graduation from the University of Cambridge, became a political worker for the party. In 1980 he became a member of its governing body, and later wrote articles for several right-wing magazines. He was the National Front's candidate for the seat of Croydon North West in 1981 and 1983, but left the party in 1989. In 1995, he joined the BNP and in 1999 became its leader. He stood as the party's candidate in several elections and became a member of the European Parliament for North West England in the 2009 European elections.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nick Griffin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.