• 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...

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

Oh dearie me. I'm not sure that right-wing smearer in chief Paul Staines aka Guido Fawkes aka Mister GuF actually knows what the word "smear" means. He features a blogpost from Tom Watson MP, drawing attention to David Cameron and his school drug record, in which Tom also puts a question about whether Cameron and his mob will have been to Staines organised raves, being as they are more-or-les...

OK, taking as read that Derek Draper is just as shameless a spin-merchant and just as crooked a blog-cheat as (if not more so than) Paul Staines, check this out: Paul Staines (aka Guido Fawkes) and Derek Draper on Daily...

Gordon Rayner unravels the controversial and sometimes criminal past of Paul Staines aka Guido Fawkes the blogger who strikes fear into Westminster.

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

YouTube - Paul Staines, smears and 'smeargate' Days after the 2006 podcast featured in this clip, it was revealed that the target of these smears had sex with men, and Paul Staines fronted up to the world (behind his mask,...

Since an encounter with the BNP at the start of his political career was rediscovered, Paul 'Guido Fawkes' Staines has gone to great (and yet disappointing) lengths to assure us that he is not a racist. Those of us who...

Elsewhere on these pages Graeme Archer says we all owe Guido Fawkes a debt of gratitude. We owe him (Paul Staines) thanks this weekend but the Right / the Conservative party shouldn't get too close to this anarchic blogger. He...

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...