"were common to Yorkshire generally, where Gunpowder Plot rhymes were numerous. Since the release of the 2006 film ""V for Vendetta"", set in a dystopian United Kingdom, the use of the ""Guy Fawkes"" mask that appears in the film has become widespread internationally among anti-establishment protest groups. The illustrator of the comic books on which the film was based, David Lloyd, has stated that the character V decided ""to adopt the persona and mission of Guy Fawkes – our great historical revolutionary"". The public ranked Fawkes 30th in the BBC's ""100 Greatest Britons"", and he was included in Bernard Ingham's"
"100 Greatest Britons The 100 Greatest Britons was a television series broadcast by the BBC in 2002. It was based on a television poll conducted to determine who the British people at that time considered the greatest Britons in history. The series included individual programmes featuring the top ten, with viewers having further opportunity to vote after each programme. It concluded with a debate and final determination of the ranking of the top ten. Although many living people were included among the top 100, all of the top ten were deceased. The poll resulted in nominees including Guy Fawkes, who"
"initially muted response may have been caused by Cleese seemingly ditching his label as a comic revolutionary – earned through his years with Monty Python – to do something more traditional. In a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000, voted for by industry professionals, ""Fawlty Towers"" was placed first. It was also voted fifth in the ""Britain's Best Sitcom"" poll in 2004, and second only to ""Frasier"" in The Ultimate Sitcom poll of comedy writers in January 2006. Basil Fawlty came top of the ""Britain's Funniest Comedy Character"" poll,"
"There was some question as to whether the Richard Burton listed at #96 was the actor or the explorer. A BBC press release makes clear that the actor was intended. 100 Greatest Britons The 100 Greatest Britons was a television series broadcast by the BBC in 2002. It was based on a television poll conducted to determine who the British people at that time considered the greatest Britons in history. The series included individual programmes featuring the top ten, with viewers having further opportunity to vote after each programme. It concluded with a debate and final determination of the ranking"
"2002 nationwide poll in the United Kingdom to discover the ""100 Greatest Britons"" showed Shackleton in eleventh place, Scott well down the list at 54th. The 21st century has seen a shift of opinion in Scott's favour, in what cultural historian Stephanie Barczewski calls ""a revision of the revisionist view"". Meteorologist Susan Solomon's 2001 account ""The Coldest March"" ties the fate of Scott's party to the extraordinarily adverse Barrier weather conditions of February and March 1912 rather than to personal or organisational failings and, while not entirely questioning any criticism of Scott, Solomon principally characterises the criticism as the ""Myth"
"majority of 28,392. One of Hawkins' opponents for selection was future Speaker, John Bercow. Bercow was selected as the Conservative candidate for the Buckingham constituency on the same day. In 2004, the Conservative constituency association, then the richest in the country, deselected their MP Nick Hawkins in the hope of obtaining an MP of Cabinet calibre. The Member since 2005, Michael Gove, was formerly Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor. Surrey Heath (UK Parliament constituency) Surrey Heath is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2005 by Michael Gove, a Conservative. In"
"""Private Eye"" reported in June 2012 that MessageSpace was advising the Russian Embassy in London on using social media. St Kitts and Nevis-based Global & General Nominees Limited (GGN) publishes the Guido Fawkes Blog. Staines describes himself as an ""adviser"" to GGN. He is a director of Global & General Nominees (Hong Kong) Limited. Paul Staines Paul Delaire Staines (born 11 February 1967) is an Irish, right-wing political blogger, who publishes the ""Guido Fawkes"" website. His website was described by ""The Daily Telegraph"" as ""one of Britain's leading political blogsites"" in 2007. The ""Sun on Sunday"" newspaper published a weekly"
"in 1982, ""centers on a vigilante's efforts to destroy an authoritarian government in a dystopian future United Kingdom."" Its main character wears a Guy Fawkes mask, and in the climax of the 2005 film adaptation, thousands of protesters adopt the same costume as they march on Parliament. When developing the story, illustrator David Lloyd made a handwritten note: ""Why don't we portray him as a resurrected Guy Fawkes, complete with one of those papier-mâché masks, in a cape and a conical hat? He'd look really bizarre and it would give Guy Fawkes the image he's deserved all these years. We"
"of the band. (as of Dec, 12, 2018, over 900,000 people have signed the petition.) On 10 March 2015, the political blogger Guido Fawkes, whose real name is Paul Staines, started a petition to reinstate Jeremy Clarkson, BBC co-host of TV series ""Top Gear"". This followed the BBC's decision to suspend him over a ""fracas"" involving a producer on the show. The petition gained over 500,000 signatures within 24 hours, making it the fastest growing petition to date for the site, while having the servers at Change.org in the UK regularly become unresponsive due to the high demand. It had"
"companies in the world, owns the rights to the image and is paid a fee with the sale of each official mask. Guy Fawkes mask The Guy Fawkes mask is a stylised depiction of Guy Fawkes, the best-known member of the Gunpowder Plot. The plot was an attempt to blow up the House of Lords in London on 5 November 1605, in order to restore a Catholic head of state. The use of a mask on an effigy has long roots as part of Guy Fawkes Night celebrations. A stylised portrayal of a face with a smile and red cheeks,"
"in 2002. He first came to national prominence when, on 30 May 2003, he was elected to succeed Bill Morris as General Secretary of the TGWU. He received 66,958 votes, 21,822 more than the second-placed candidate Jack Dromey, who was widely perceived as the Blairite candidate. He was considered to be a member of the so-called ""Awkward Squad"" of trade union leaders opposed to New Labour policies that they perceived to be against the interests of working people. After his election he said in an interview with ""The Independent"" newspaper: He later served as one of the two Joint-General Secretaries"
"Guy Fawkes mask The Guy Fawkes mask is a stylised depiction of Guy Fawkes, the best-known member of the Gunpowder Plot. The plot was an attempt to blow up the House of Lords in London on 5 November 1605, in order to restore a Catholic head of state. The use of a mask on an effigy has long roots as part of Guy Fawkes Night celebrations. A stylised portrayal of a face with a smile and red cheeks, a wide moustache upturned at both ends, and a thin vertical pointed beard, designed by illustrator David Lloyd, came to represent broader"
"a trader. In 2001 he sued his fund's financial backer in a commercial dispute. Consequently, Staines declared himself bankrupt in October 2003 after two years of litigation, and legal costs on both sides running into hundreds of thousands of pounds. In September 2004, Staines began the ""Guido Fawkes Blog of plots, rumours and conspiracy"". The name is the Spanish name given to Guy Fawkes, and continues that symbolism with the masthead slogan ""tittle tattle, gossip and rumours about Westminster's Mother of Parliaments. Written from the perspective of the only man to enter parliament with honest intentions. The intention being to"
"media coverage continued to name Staines as Fawkes until the airing of a BBC Radio 4 documentary about him on 10 February 2007, which gave a fairly comprehensive history and background, and prompted his blog post ""So Much For Anonymity"". In 2005, Staines's blog was voted the best in the Political Commentary category of The Backbencher Political Weblog Awards, run by ""The Guardian"". This was an online poll linked to the Guido Fawkes site, and not a poll of Guardian readers specifically. In May 2006, Staines (as Guido Fawkes) co-authored a book with Iain Dale, which was critical of the"
"confessed. Immediately before his execution on 31 January, Fawkes fell from the scaffold where he was to be hanged and broke his neck, thus avoiding the agony of being hanged, drawn and quartered. He became synonymous with the Gunpowder Plot, the failure of which has been commemorated in Britain as Guy Fawkes Night since 5 November 1605, when his effigy is traditionally burned on a bonfire, commonly accompanied by fireworks. Guy Fawkes was born in 1570 in Stonegate, York. He was the second of four children born to Edward Fawkes, a proctor and an advocate of the consistory court at"
"was voted the 28th most influential man in Britain by ""GQ"" in November 2011. Cole has primarily focused on politicians’ expenses scandals and government waste. In 2015, following the suspension of BBC ""Top Gear"" presenter Jeremy Clarkson, Cole delivered a one-million-strong petition which his organisation, Guido Fawkes started on Change.org to BBC Broadcasting House by means of a tank. Harry Cole (journalist) Harry Cole (born c. 1985) is a British journalist working for ""The Sun"". Cole was the co-editor of the pseudonymous blog Guido Fawkes with Paul Staines until 2015, contributing Editor of ""The Spectator"" and columnist for ""Spectator Life""."
"TV"". On 13 May 2005, it was announced that Foulkes was to receive a life peerage. On 16 June 2005 he was created Baron Foulkes of Cumnock, of Cumnock in East Ayrshire. He serves as a member of the Executive Committee of the Interparliamentary Union and Member of the Board of Governors of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy. He was a member of the Intelligence and Security Committee in the Cabinet Office from 2007 to May 2010 and has been a Member of the Joint Committee on National Security Strategy since October 2010. He was one of the fifty signatories"
"making fun of what he saw as logical fallacies in reasoning or action. His book ""Freedom & Reality"" contained many quotes from Labour party manifestos or by Harold Wilson that he regarded as nonsensical. When asked by BBC interviewer Michael Parkinson what he regarded as his achievements he replied ""...it is doubtful whether any man can say how the world was altered because he was in it."" In August 2002, Powell appeared 55th in the List of 100 Greatest Britons of all time (voted for by the public in a BBC nationwide poll). In March 2015, ""The Independent"" reported that"
"the Conservative Party's campaign in the 2015 general election, and the failure of the Party's subsequent campaign in the 2017 general election. Beyond ConservativeHome, Wallace is a regular commentator in the media. He writes a fortnightly column on Brexit for the i paper, and has also written on politics for The Guardian, The Observer, the Financial Times, The Times and the Daily Telegraph. In October 2017, he was placed at Number 89 in 'The Top 100 Most Influential People on the Right' by political commentator Iain Dale. Described by blogger Guido Fawkes as ""a secret quiz buff"", Wallace has appeared"
"the 2001 General Election he was again appointed a PPS to the Minister of State at the Home Office Jeff Rooker for a year. He rejoined the defence select committee in 2003. Following the 2005 2005 General Election he served as the chairman of the foreign affairs select committee until 2010, the most senior position in international affairs in British politics outside the Government. He was re-elected at the 2010 General election but could not continue as Chair of the Select Committee because Labour lost the election . He was however re-elected to serve as a Labour member of the"
"seat was gained by the Conservative candidate John Gummer. After leaving Parliament, he became Assistant Director of Manpower for the National Freight Corporation. He subsequently joined the National Water Council as Assistant Director of Manpower and was promoted to Director of Manpower. From 1983 to 1991 he worked as Chief Personnel Officer to the Agricultural and Food Research Council. He left the Labour Party in 2003, because of opposition to the Iraq War. Dickens was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen's Birthday Honours list of 1991. James Dickens James McCulloch York Dickens OBE"
"for Mayor of London. Dobson said that he had told them to ""Stick it up their wickit"". Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn, who considered his beard ""a form of dissent"" against New Labour, defeated Rolf Harris to win 2001's award. 2002's winner was Education Secretary Charles Clarke, who beat comedian Ricky Gervais and Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams for the title, although Flett suggested that his beard was probably a ""pragmatic"" one to conceal multiple double chins. The 2004 Beard of the Year was held jointly by cricketer Andrew Flintoff and NATFHE union leader Paul Mackney, due to the close polling"
"himself would be proud, implementing socialist policies to protect the citizens from their own moral weakness"", an action that ""happened, not under a Communist regime, but under an increasingly authoritarian Conservative government"". In September 2004, Staines began writing an anonymous blog about British politics, under the name of Guido Fawkes, an alternative name of Guy Fawkes, one of the group that plotted to blow up the Palace of Westminster in 1605. In February 2005, the online version of ""The Guardian"" reported that the Fawkes blog shared a fax number with Staines. Although he subsequently refused to confirm the links, further"
"at the behest of King James I of England, was ordained into the Church of England. Guy Fawkes, an Englishman and a Spanish soldier, along with other recusants or converts, including, among others, Sir Robert Catesby, Christopher Wright, John Wright and Thomas Percy, was arrested and charged with attempting to blow up Parliament on 5 November 1605. The plot was uncovered and most of the plotters, who were recusants or converts, were tried and executed. Recusants and martyrs are represented in the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales and among the Jacobites, such as the Earls of Derwentwater, particularly those"
"stand up, and is a regular on British TV and radio. Murray was born in Buckinghamshire, where his father worked at British Rail. His paternal grandfather was the diplomat Ralph Murray, while his maternal grandfather was killed at the Battle of Dunkirk, and Al retains a deep interest in the history of the Second World War. He is a descendant of William Makepeace Thackeray, from whom he believes he gets his sense of satire. In 2003 he was listed in ""The Observer"" as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy and in 2007 was voted the 16th greatest"
"since Nelson's time. Despite a large new biography by Carola Oman in 1946, the figure of Nelson seemed out of touch with post war austerity. However, Nelson's legacy has endured. In the BBC's ""100 Greatest Britons"" programme in 2002, Nelson was voted the 9th greatest Briton of all time. The bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar in 2005 led to a round of celebrations under the banner of 'Trafalgar 200'. An International Fleet Review was held, and several new biographies and histories of the battle were published. Phrases such as ""England expects"" and ""nelson"" (meaning ""111"") continue to remain closely"
"of the Year for 1940, and ""Man of the Half-Century"" in 1949. A BBC survey, of January 2000, saw Churchill voted the greatest British prime minister of the 20th century. In 2002, BBC TV viewers and web site users voted him the greatest Briton of all time in a ten-part series called Great Britons, a poll attracting almost two million votes. Many statues have been created in likeness and in honour of Churchill. Numerous buildings and squares have also been named in his honour. The most prominent example of a statue of Churchill is the official statue commissioned by the"
"remarked, in a statement issued by the BBC. ""They all think they're more intelligent than everyone else, more cultured, that people don't recognise their true greatness – self-delusion in every sense. And there's nothing people like better than failure."" Mary Kalemkerian, Head of Programmes for BBC 7, commented: ""Classic comedians such as Tony Hancock and the Goons are obviously still firm favourites with BBC radio listeners. Age doesn't seem to matter – if it's funny, it's funny."" Dan Peat of the Tony Hancock Appreciation Society said of the poll: ""It's fantastic news. If he was alive he would have taken"
"Lancashire region. His election to the Barrow and Furness seat in the 1992 general election saw him replace Cecil Franks as MP with a majority of 3,578. His majority increased to 14,497 in the Labour landslide of the 1997 Election. After being a part of the Department of Health from 1998, he was made a member of the Privy Council in 2001. In the reshuffle following the 2005 general election (in which his majority fell to just over 6,000), he was made Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office, replacing his close friend and former"
"largest such institution in the north of England. This led to the Pilgrimage of Grace, an uprising of northern Catholics in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire opposed to religious reform. Henry VIII restored his authority by establishing the Council of the North in York in the dissolved St Mary's Abbey. The city became a trading and service centre during this period. Guy Fawkes, who was born and educated in York, was a member of a group of Roman Catholic restorationists that planned the Gunpowder Plot. Its aim was to displace Protestant rule by blowing up the Houses of Parliament while King James"
"David Ogilvy to be inducted into the hall of fame. In 2000 David Abbott wrote an open letter to Campaign Magazine in response to the publication awarding FCUK their advertiser of the year accolade. The letter to the publication read: Fcuk me, what a brilliant choice for advertiser of the year. Fcuking great idea to put fcuking four-letter words on fcuking big posters, where every fcuking eight-year-old can see them. What a fcuking cool way to get up the noses of those fcuking parents and teacher tossers who are trying to bring their kids up as fcuking goody-goodies. That’s the"
"who was later treated in hospital. Tymon also claimed that Clarkson had called him a ""lazy Irish cunt"". Clarkson's contract with the BBC expired at the end of March, and a previously proposed three-year renewal was withdrawn. A Change.org petition, aiming to reverse the BBC decision, was started on 10 March by blogger Guido Fawkes. The petition reached its target 1,000,000 signatures by the afternoon of 20 March, and was delivered to the BBC in an artillery vehicle by a man dressed as ""Top Gear"" test driver The Stig, with Fawkes as spokesman. The hosting website described the petition as"
"in its favour—the biggest swing to Labour anywhere in the UK. When interviewed on election night television by Jeremy Paxman, Hughes suggested that the fall in his vote might reflect the unpopularity of Southwark Council, which had been controlled by the Liberal Democrats since 2002. Hughes lost the seat in 2015 to Labour's Neil Coyle, after being an MP for 32 years. He stood again at the 2017 general election in his former seat, gaining 18,189 votes, but was defeated for the second time by Coyle who polled 31,161 votes, a majority of 12,972. Hughes first joined the Liberal Party"