BNP leader Nick Griffin has said people have the "right to discriminate", after he put the address of a gay couple who won a landmark court ruling on Twitter. 
 
 A court ruled a guest house owner had discriminated against Michael Black and John Morgan when she turned them away. 
 
 Mr Griffin said the men had "abused the system to persecute" the Christian owner, after earlier urging Twitter followers to hold a demonstration. 
 
 The couple, from Cambridgeshire, said any demo would be a "damp squib". 
 
 Mr Griffin is being investigated by police over the tweets published on the @nickgriffinmep account. 
 
 'Shocked to hear' 
 
 Two of the posts read: "So Messrs Black & Morgan, at [their address]. A British Justice team will come up to Huntington & give you a..." then "...bit of drama by way of reminding you that an English couple's home is their castle. Say No to heterophobia!." 
 
 The more we read about it the more incoherent they seemed - we don't really know what Nick Griffin was getting at Michael Black 
 
 An earlier tweet on the North West region MEP's account had asked for the couple's address and then said: "We'll hold demo... for rights of all home owners, gays included, to rent or not rent rooms to whomsoever they wish." 
 
 Mr Griffin told BBC 5 live he believed discrimination was a "fundamental human right". 
 
 "Mr Black and Mr Morgan have the right to decide who enters their home and who doesn't, as do Christians, and that's what they are taking away," he said. 
 
 "Those two gentlemen placed themselves in the public eye and they asked for it when they used and abused the legal system to persecute an innocent Christian couple. 
 
 "It's time that the silent majority had people standing up for them so that this relentless bullying of ordinary people by activists and the left-wing judiciary stopped. 
 
 "The liberal elite simply won't listen to reasoned argument, so we have to be slightly more forceful. I believe in peaceful direct action." 
 
 Mr Black told BBC Breakfast he was baffled by Mr Griffin's tweets. 
 
 Tweets on Nick Griffin's account called for a demonstration at the men's home 
 
 He said: "We were shocked to hear about it, of course. The more we read about it the more incoherent they seemed. We don't really know what Nick Griffin was getting at. 
 
 "He accuses us of being heterophobic, which is far from the truth, and he's accused us of trying to outlaw Christianity, which is not true either. 
 
 "The finding of discrimination protects Christians from being discriminated against as well as people who are gay or of different races or different religions." 
 
 Asked about the possibility of demonstrations, Mr Morgan said police were keeping an eye on their home. 
 
 The couple said they would give the damages they received - £1,800 each - to charity. 
 
 'Bit of drama' 
 
 Mr Griffin said: "I said we will be holding a demonstration in Huntingdon. It doesn't necessarily mean outside their house." 
 
 He claimed that the reference "give you a bit of drama" in his tweet was commenting on the fact the couple were involved in amateur dramatics, and he had only wanted a "peaceful" demonstration. 
 
 Mr Black, 64, and Mr Morgan, 59, from Brampton, near Huntingdon, went to court after they were refused a double room at Swiss Bed and Breakfast, Berkshire, by its owner. 
 
 When they arrived in March 2010, Susanne Wilkinson, who is a Christian, would not let them stay in a room with a double bed. 
 
 On Thursday, recorder Claire Moulder said that by refusing the couple access to a double room, Mrs Wilkinson had "treated them less favourably than she would treat unmarried heterosexual couples in the same circumstances". 
 
 However, the recorder accepted that Mrs Wilkinson was genuine about her Christian beliefs and had also stopped unmarried heterosexual couples from sharing a double bed. 
 
 "It was an alarming decision and that couple must have been deeply distressed by it." 
 
 Cambridgeshire Police are investigating the Twitter incident in liaison with Dyfed-Powys Police, the force where Mr Griffin lives. ||||| Image copyright Twitter Image caption The Britain First Twitter account and that of its two leaders have been blocked 
 
 Twitter has suspended the accounts of two leaders of a British far-right group shortly after revising its rules on hate speech. 
 
 Paul Golding, Britain First's leader, and Jayda Fransen, his deputy, can no longer tweet and their past posts no longer appear. 
 
 The organisation's official Twitter page has suffered the same fate. 
 
 It appears that three of Ms Fransen's posts that President Trump retweeted have gone from his feed as a result. 
 
 The messages had featured anti-Muslim videos and proved highly controversial when the American leader shared them in November. 
 
 British Prime Minister Theresa May's spokesman said it had been "wrong for the president to have done this". 
 
 Ms Fransen and Mr Golding were arrested earlier this week over separate behaviour relating to Northern Ireland. 
 
 Restricted swastikas 
 
 Twitter announced in October that it planned to take a tougher stance against hate symbols as well as those who posted messages that glorified or condoned violence. 
 
 It has now said that those who express an affiliation with groups that use or celebrate violence to achieve their aims will be permanently suspended. 
 
 Hateful imagery - such as the Nazi swastika - can still be posted, but will initially be hidden behind a "sensitive media" warning, that visitors must disable to proceed. However, such content will no longer be allowed on a person's profile page. 
 
 Those that featured examples will be asked to remove them. Repeat violators will be banned. 
 
 The company said the move would "reduce the amount of abusive behaviour and hateful conduct" on the network. 
 
 "If an account's profile information includes a violent threat or multiple slurs, epithets, racist or sexist tropes, incites fear, or reduces someone to less than human, it will be permanently suspended," it explained. 
 
 "We plan to develop internal tools to help us identify violating accounts to supplement user reports." 
 
 Twitter has promised a more robust system to appeal against decisions, but said that it was still in development. 
 
 US bans 
 
 The company is not commenting about the action it is taking against individual accounts citing "privacy and security reasons". 
 
 That has left it to others to play detective and report who else has been suspended. Many are using the hashtag #twitterpurge to do so. 
 
 US accounts that appear to have fallen foul of the new rules include: 
 
 Jared Taylor, head of American Renaissance, a website that champions "racial difference" 
 
 Michael Hill and Hunter Wallace - leader and public relations chief, respectively, of the League of the South, which is described as a "hate group" by civil rights campaigners at the Southern Poverty Law Center 
 
 the American Nazi Party, which had tweeted it was "inevitable that we will be banned" at the weekend 
 
 the Traditionalist Worker Party, a white supremacist group 
 
 End Time Paradigm, an account that specialised in anti-Semitic content 
 
 Several other members of the so-called alt-right have tweeted that fans should sign up to Gab.ai - a social network that pitches itself as a free speech alternative to Twitter - if they too are suspended. 
 
 Generation Identity, a pan-European nationalist group that opened a British branch last month, has also had its UK and Ireland Twitter account suspended.
– Police in England are investigating controversial tweets posted by the head of a small, far-right conservative party, reports the BBC. The postings from British National Party leader Nick Griffin listed the address of a gay couple who recently won a court case against a Bed and Breakfast that refused to provide them with a single-bed room. The first of two consecutive tweets listed the name and address of the couple, then read that protesters would arrive to "give you a ... bit of drama by way of reminding you that an English couple's home is their castle. Say No to heterophobia!" The New York Times says the Twitter account was initially suspended, but later reappeared with the same tweets minus the address. It wasn't clear who ordered the addresses to be removed. The controversy comes after Twitter first used its new censorship policy to suspend the account of a neo-Nazi group in Germany. Griffin has ridiculed the whole mess and declared that discrimination is a "fundamental human right."