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

As Mark Pack reported over on his blog, for the second time allegations over Chris Huhne’s election expenses that were strongly backed by Paul Staines and Harry Cole have collapsed after the Electoral Commission investigated them: The review concluded that one item had been under-reported by £10.15 (sic) but that otherwise the expenditure in the

It’s rare for Paul Staines, the founder of the Guido Fawkes blog, to express warm and positive views — yet today’s an exception, with the launch of the No2AV campaign’s website winning his plaudits: Promising stuff from the No2AV campaign as their website goes live today, plenty more to come too apparently. Indeed, so excited

Paul Staines, who blogs as Guido Fawkes, seems very keen indeed to persuade his readers that the public’s right behind him on his pursuit of William Hague over the allegation of improper activities with his former special advisor. Keen enough, it appears, to take a rather inventive approach when it comes to interpreting the opinion

THERE's only one thing more repellent than the thought of Paul Staines - aka Guido Fawkes - drip-feeding one poisonous rumour after another into the blogosphere in the hop

It’s Friday, so here’s a fistful of lists that sum up the past week on Liberal Democrat Voice: 5 most-read stories on LDV this week 1. Half a defence of Paul Staines (aka @guidofawkes) (30 comments) by Stephen Tall 2. Paul Staines, William Hague and questions for bloggers (33 comments) by Iain Roberts 3. History

Following the loathesome role played by Paul Staines of Guido Fawkes in smearing William Hague, it is worth recalling this classic demolition of Fawkes