The man behind political website Guido Fawkes tells how he posted material using hosting sites around the world to avoid legal action.

The man behind political website Guido Fawkes has told how he avoiding legal action by using foreign web hosts.

Guido Fawkes, aka Paul Staines, takes time out from his usual regime of dishing the dirt on our unlovely Political Class and goes into a more reflective tone of voice with a good piece about one of the lessons of the financial crisis: the problem that the people who run banks often have no financial liability for losses. He's not the first person to state this, of course: Kevin Dowd, who gets...

Most days I stop by Paul Staines’s Guido Fawkes website and smile. Yes, I admit it, I enjoy his blog even though I have almost nothing in common with the man. I’m a million miles away from him politically, in attitude and even, or maybe because of, in age. I don’t understand how ‘libertarian’ has

Following on from Perry's post immediately below this one, I see that Guido Fawkes (aka Paul Staines), has, by his standards, a pretty long, and more significantly, very strongly worded item pointing to all the various links between the late, unlamented Labour government, and the equally unlamented Libyan dictator. I wonder how Tony Blair regrets that photo of him shaking hands with Gaddaffi?...

Can I just congratulate Paul Staines on a recent-ish appointment. The alter ego (and what a fucking ego) of Guido Fawkes is running Messagespace… Staines is founder of the Guido Fawkes blog Order-Order and also runs the MessageSpace network which sells ads across around 30 political blogs. It wasn’t too long ago that Messagespace were

What an enjoyable holiday Guido Fawkes must be having. While he is sunning himself in France he is also managing to create a ludicrous fuss in the UK with his campaign to use the new e-petition website to ask for a vote in the Commons on Capital Punishment. For some reason this seems to have

Something quite remarkable has happened over the past couple of the days. It started with the launch of the government's new e-petition site, which promises that any petition which secures 100,000 signatures will be "eligible for debate in the House of Commons". And it continued with Guido Fawkes submitting a petition to reinstate the death penalty for "the murder of children a...

I see that my fourth (approximately, I think) cousin John Micklethwait, Editor of the Economist, whom our own Paul Marks disapproves of so severely, is this weekend attending a meeting of the Bilderberg Group. I learned about this list of potentates thanks to a link to it from Guido Fawkes, and I consider it rather significant that such an august media personage as Guido should be positively drawi...

"Vote Labour and we'll turn debt into investment" Written by a wag on the Guido Fawkes blog in the comments on an excellent item about inflation. The great thing about that quote is that I can actually imagine some prat such as Ed Milliband, leader of the Labour Party, saying such a thing. And of course this is pretty much what Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize winning economist, probably thinks also...