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

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

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

Alex Hilton, who runs the Labourhome blog, has received "a threatening phone call from a Labour member upset that I have a relationship with the Tory blogger Guido Fawkes". Hilton and Paul Staines (who writes Guido Fawkes) founded the Messagespace advertising scheme for political blogs. And Staines is also a personal friend of Alex Hilton. Hilton writes: I have been told that if I don't extra...

Yesterday Labour MP Denis MacShane sent an email to various hacks attacking Conservative MP William Hague and accused him of "laying down a smokescreen" over Tory allies in Europe. He followed up with ten questions for William Hague and the Conservative Party over Europe. Having seen a copy of the email, we publish it here in full.

This blog has never had a link to order-order.com*, home of serial referrer to himself in the third person Guido Fawkes/Paul Staines. So I am pleased to welcome all converts to the pure and gentle world of freedom from Staines. More seriously, my longstanding complaint about Paul is not that he’s outrageous or so on, it’s that

In an intriguing development, the story has just broken that William Hague is to give up his outside interests. Paul Waugh reports that Hague will give them all up, including the after dinner speeches, by September. Hague’s move suggests that Cameron is going to order his shadow Cabinet to give up all their second jobs.  These jobs were always a strategic vulnerability, but given the st...

• Campbell accuses Paul Staines of running 'fascist website' Radio presenter Nicky Campbell traded political insults with Paul Staines, the political blogger known as Guido Fawkes, on the BBC Radio 5 Live breakfast show today. Campbell introduced his guest as the writer of "rightwing blog Guido Fawkes". Staines countered with "And Nicky Campbell of the leftwing BBC", before Campbell...

At the end of a long week, Gordon Brown has apologised after high profile blogger Derek Draper and special advisor Damian McBride discussed plans to smear Tories online with a website modelled on the right wing Guido Fawkes. (We need to be careful not to call Paul Staines, who authors Guido Fawkes, a Tory as

Paul ‘Guido Fawkes‘ Staines gets a little write-up in the new Private Eye. It describes a highly intellectual exchange where Staines refers to the Daily Telegraph’s Andrew Pierce as ‘a thieving cunt’. (And Guido really should be the last person to be chucking aesthetic aspersions at others.) Now, far be it from me to get between