"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 Guido Fawkes column from 2013 to 2016. Born and raised in England, Staines is an Irish citizen. Staines acquired an interest in politics as a libertarian in the 1980s and did public relations for acid house parties in the early 1990s. He then spent several years in finance, first as a broker then as"
"the Downing Street Press Office, found their way to Paul Staines who blogs under the pseudonym of Guido Fawkes. Draper and McBride initially tried to play down the plans. McBride stated ""To call it an orchestrated smear campaign is ridiculous. It was just some ill-judged gossip between friends which was never meant to see the light of day. They appear to be some ideas — laid out in embarrassing detail — for stories which could appear on a Left-wing version of the Guido Fawkes blog called Red Rag. They’re all stories which have been doing the rounds in Westminster for"
"special adviser, Damian McBride, had sent a series of emails to Draper discussing plans to set up a blog which would be used to post false rumours about the private lives of senior or prominent members of the Conservative Party and their spouses. These smears would have included sexual and personal fabrications against MP Nadine Dorries, Conservative leader David Cameron and his wife, Samantha, and Shadow Chancellor George Osborne and his wife Frances. The emails, which had been sent from the Downing Street Press Office, found their way to Paul Staines, who brought them to the attention of the media."
"be devastating for the claimant."" Following the granting of the injunction, the identity of PJS was reported by news media outlets in the United States, Canada, and Scotland. Paul Staines, a political blogger based in Ireland, was claimed to have broken the injunction but said that he was not subject to the UK gagging order. Within England and Wales, the couples' lawyers worked to ensure that web blocking actions were effective. Former Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming, who had used parliamentary privilege to name the claimant in ""CTB v News Group Newspapers"" on the floor of the House of Commons"
"Paul Horner Paul Horner (November 5, 1978 – September 18, 2017) was an American writer, comedian and contributor to fake news websites whose stories US Intelligence Agencies, including the CIA & FBI, confirm had a significant impact on the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The Associated Press, the Chicago Tribune, PolitiFact and The Washington Post all called Horner a ""hoax artist"". Horner was lead writer of the website ""National Report"" since the site's launch. One of his widest-spread fake stories was a piece claiming artist Banksy had been arrested and his identity revealed as Paul Horner, which Horner posted in 2013"
"naive conspiratorial view of the political process and of politicians which says in effect they’re all crooks, and they all ought to be in jail, and we will fearlessly expose them on the blogsphere. And it isn’t like that... You can be pretty cavalier with the facts sometimes. Much of the blog, for people who don’t know it, this week is devoted to whether or not Gordon Brown picked his nose in, was it the budget or some other recent event? That’s been your top item.” Staines was criticised by Iain Dale and Michael White in September 2010 for publishing"
"crudest and often virulently racist terms. Staines' wife is referred to as Mrs Fawkes and his daughters as Miss Fawkes and Ms Fawkes. On Monday mornings, the blog features a Monday Morning Point of View cartoon by ""Rich&Mark"", cartoonist Rich Johnston, archived at the RichAndMark website. Staines has made a number of posts on his blog relating to the Smith Institute, a charitable thinktank set up in memory of former Labour leader John Smith, which he alleged to have engaged in party political activities (forbidden under charity law) and links to Gordon Brown. These complaints led on 1 February 2007"
"post rumours they had made up about the private lives of senior and high-profile members of the Conservative Party. These false rumours were to have included sexual and personal allegations about Conservative politicians and their spouses, including Nadine Dorries, David and Samantha Cameron, and George and Frances Osborne. McBride conceded in his emails that he had used ""poetic licence"" in respect of existing gossip and rumours. The emails, which had been sent from the Downing Street Press Office, were acquired by Paul Staines, known for his Guido Fawkes blog, who brought them to the attention of the media. The Guido"
"Titus Oates Titus Oates (15 September 1649 – 12/13 July 1705), also called Titus the Liar, was an English perjurer who fabricated the ""Popish Plot"", a supposed Catholic conspiracy to kill King Charles II. Titus Oates was born at Oakham in Rutland. His father Samuel, a graduate of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, was a minister who moved between the Church of England and the Baptists; he became a Baptist during the Puritan Revolution, rejoining the established church at the Restoration, and was rector of All Saints' Church at Hastings (1666–74). Oates was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and other schools."
"on 4 November. The existence of the plot had been revealed in an anonymous letter delivered ten days earlier to William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, warning him to keep away from Parliament. On the evening of 4 November the authorities made a search of the House of Lords, where they discovered one of the plotters, Guy Fawkes, guarding a hoard of explosives. He was immediately arrested. Fawkes had posed as a servant of fellow plotter Thomas Percy, and it was therefore Percy's name that appeared on the first arrest warrant issued by the government. News of Fawkes's capture soon spread"
"session on 5 November 1605, a soldier called Guy Fawkes was discovered in the cellars of the parliament buildings guarding a pile of slaves, not far from about twenty barrels of gunpowder with which he intended to blow up Parliament House the following day and cause the destruction, as James put it, ""not only...of my person, nor of my wife and posterity also, but of the whole body of the State in general"". A Catholic conspiracy led by a disaffected gentleman called Robert Catesby, the Gunpowder Plot, as it quickly became known, had in fact been discovered in advance of"
"become involved in what was later termed 'Waller's Plot'. Waller remained in Parliament after the outbreak of the English Civil War, still arguing on behalf of the Crown. He and several others, including his brother-in-law, Nathaniel Tomkins, and the wealthy linen draper Richard Chaloner, hoped to capitalize on the strong sentiments for peace in London, as well as the moderate factions in Parliament who were still hopeful of a reconciliation with Charles I. The plot seems to have begun as a plan to utilize passive resistance on the part of London's population in an attempt to force Parliament to seek"
"to a formal investigation by the Charity Commission. The Commission threatened him with contempt of court proceedings if he did not release any documents, obtained from whistleblowers, relating to political activities by the Smith Institute. Staines has stated on his blog that he intends to protect his anonymous sources, which has occasioned speculation that no documents or proof of Staines' allegations actually exist. Staines has been credited with being the first blogger to ""take the scalp"" of a serving British minister, following the resignation for a period of well over a year of Peter Hain from the offices of Secretary"
"but that he was being less hypocritical and breaking the clique by refusing to cover up such stories. The coverage of the Prescott affair drew considerable extra traffic to Staines's blog. He was named at number 36 in the ""Top 50 newsmakers of 2006"" in ""The Independent"", for his blog, and his role in the Prescott scandal in particular. In 2011 ""GQ"" ranked him and co-author Harry Cole jointly at number 28 in the magazine's list of the 100 Most Influential Men in Britain. Staines encourages readers to forward political documents and information, which he publishes on his blog. One"
"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"
"list of the 50 greatest people from Yorkshire. Notes Citations Bibliography Gunpowder Plot in popular culture The Gunpowder Plot was a failed assassination attempt against King James VI of Scotland and I of England by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby. The conspirators' aim was to blow up the House of Lords at the State Opening of Parliament on 5 November 1605, while the king and many other important members of the aristocracy and nobility were inside. The conspirator who became most closely associated with the plot in the popular imagination was Guy Fawkes, who had"
"for his approach to blogging. He often criticises the mainstream media, claiming that they are too close to the political establishment and that they also keep internal secrets about political scandals from the public. When allegations about John Prescott's private life appeared, Staines wrote that ""You can tell it is a big story because Nick Robinson is ignoring it"". Robinson responded via his own blog, accusing Staines of having a political agenda to damage the government. These criticisms were echoed by Peter Wilby, in the ""New Statesman"", who suggested that Staines's claims to have made the news on Prescott were"
"Houses of Parliament by a member of the Democratic Unionist Party. On 28 May 2006 the ""Sunday World"" newspaper based in Dublin published further allegations emanating from Ingram. The story concentrated on an undated document purporting to be a transcript of a conversation between McGuinness and an MI6 agent circa 1990. The document describes a conversation in which the IRA ""proxy bomb"" strategy is discussed- the ""proxy bomb"" being a method of attack where a human being is strapped into an explosive packed vehicle, then forced to drive to a British Army vehicle checkpoint before detonation. The document described a"
"in 1663. He became one of the most successful practitioners at the Irish Bar, and was Recorder of Waterford and Clonmel. In 1665 he was elected to the Irish House of Commons as member for Ardee. In the autumn of 1678 the great wave of anti-Catholic hysteria known as the Popish Plot, sparked by the invention by the informer Titus Oates of a wholly fictitious Jesuit-led conspiracy to murder the King, broke out in England, and the Plot also gained some credence in Ireland. At that time several Irish judges and Law Officers, who were aware of the King's own"
"nursing home. It was here in 1605 that most of the men who had attempted to blow up Parliament with Guy Fawkes were cornered, and a bloody gunfight ensued, resulting in the deaths of at least four of the conspirators, including their leader Robert Catesby. Bullet holes can still be seen in the house's walls, but it is not open to the public. Many of the streets of the Charterfields housing development, built during the 1970s, adopted the names of the Gunpowder Plot conspirators, such as Catesby Drive (Robert Catesby), Digby Road (Sir Edward Digby), Keyes Drive (Robert Keyes), Tresham"
"Gunpowder Plot in popular culture The Gunpowder Plot was a failed assassination attempt against King James VI of Scotland and I of England by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby. The conspirators' aim was to blow up the House of Lords at the State Opening of Parliament on 5 November 1605, while the king and many other important members of the aristocracy and nobility were inside. The conspirator who became most closely associated with the plot in the popular imagination was Guy Fawkes, who had been assigned the task of lighting the fuse to the explosives."
"World"" and ""The Sunday Times"" and states that, contrary to the comments of his detractors, he did not receive any payments for this. His success in the McBride affair has occasioned serious criticism from him of the UK lobby correspondent system, which he believes has succumbed to the ethos of political spin. In late November 2011, Staines posted on his Guido Fawkes blog the Leveson Inquiry pre-submission of former journalist and Labour Party spin-doctor Alastair Campbell. All pre-submissions are given under strict and full confidentiality, and all core participants – including victims, the Metropolitan Police and the Crown Prosecution Service"
"Jubilee Plot The Jubilee Plot was a supposed assassination attempt by radical Irish nationalists on Queen Victoria during her Golden Jubilee, on 20 June 1887. Those who presented the idea of a plot claimed that the radicals intended to blow up Westminster Abbey, Queen Victoria and half the British Cabinet. The story was closely connected to a set of forged letters by Richard Pigott, which attempted to implicate Charles Stuart Parnell with supporting physical force Irish republicanism. The organizer of the assassination attempt was later said to be Francis Millen, a member of Clan na Gael. However, he had reportedly"
"Wintour, John Wright, Thomas Percy, and Guy Fawkes. Described latterly as a charismatic and influential man, as well as a religious zealot, over the following months he helped to bring a further eight conspirators into the plot, whose naissance was planned for 5 November 1605. A letter sent anonymously to William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, alerted the authorities, and on the eve of the planned explosion, during a search of Parliament, Fawkes was found guarding the barrels of gunpowder. News of his arrest caused the other plotters to flee London, warning Catesby along their way. With a much-diminished group of"
"Main Plot The Main Plot was an alleged conspiracy of July 1603 by English courtiers to remove King James I from the English throne and to replace him with his cousin Lady Arabella (or Arbella) Stuart. The plot was supposedly led by Henry Brooke, Lord Cobham, and funded by the Spanish government. In a state trial, the defendants accused of involvement in the Main Plot were tried along with those of the Bye Plot. It is referred to as the ""main"" plot, because at the time it was presented as the principal (""main"") plot of which the secondary (or ""bye"")"
"plume"". Thus, he produced ""Surprising Miracles of Nature and Art"", and many other treatises on very plain paper, and sold [them] at an exceedingly reasonable rate. His enterprise and diligence were rewarded by large sales and considerable wealth."" Nathaniel Crouch Nathaniel Crouch (born c. 1632) was an English printer and bookseller, and under the pseudonym Richard Burton (or R.B.) wrote historical books as well. As a historian, he is considered a hack, borrowing material from other books and rewriting them under his pseudonym, then publishing and marketing them under the Crouch imprint. Though he was the type of writer/publisher denounced"
"compiled a collection of Welsh proverbs (surviving, in another's hand, in Mostyn MS 204). Wiliams's family connections meant that he knew the owners of some of Wales's most important medieval manuscripts, and he began transcribing manuscripts already by the age of twenty-one. His copying included: It is rumoured that Wiliems was involved in the Gunpowder plot and, in warning his relative John Wynn not to go to the State Opening of Parliament in 1605, was responsible to either a smaller or greater extent for the suspicions which ultimately caught Guy Fawkes. This story is the basis for a short historical"
"of 2006, but Gardner has repeatedly raised the possibility of a return to this work in the future. In November 2006, the Hoax-Slayer website revealed Phil Gardner to be the author of ""The Peter Marlin Story"", an elaborate online hoax written in 2004 and purporting to be a journalist's account of his dealings with a serial killer. Gardner has since admitted to its authorship on his own blog, and has also written of his mild loathing of the piece. ""The Peter Marlin Story"" is rare amongst his work for being devoid of any humour whatsoever. Gardner's personal blog, ""Mulled Whines"","
"Paul Joseph Watson Paul Joseph Watson is an English YouTube personality, radio host, writer and conspiracy theorist. He has been described as 'alt-right' by multiple sources. Although as late as July 2018 he called himself alt-right he no longer accepts that label and considers himself part of the ""New Right."" Watson's career emerged through his work for conspiracy theorist and radio host Alex Jones. As editor-at-large of Jones' website ""InfoWars.com"" he helped promote fake news and conspiracy theories such as the claim that 9/11 was an inside job, the chemtrail conspiracy theory, the New World Order and the Illuminati. Subsequently"
"would nott answere"". With the addition to the conspiracy of Thomas Percy (John Wright's brother-in-law), the five plotters met at the Duck and Drake inn, in the fashionable Strand district of London, on 20 May 1604. From hereon Thomas Wintour remained at the heart of the conspiracy. The group leased properties in London, one in Lambeth for storing the gunpowder that was rowed across the Thames to its destination. His confession has the plotters digging a tunnel toward their target during one of the several prorogations of Parliament, abandoned when the chamber directly beneath the House of Lords became available."
"Popish Plot The Popish Plot was a fictitious conspiracy concocted by Titus Oates that between 1678 and 1681 gripped the Kingdoms of England and Scotland in anti-Catholic hysteria. Oates alleged that there was an extensive Catholic conspiracy to assassinate Charles II, accusations that led to the executions of at least 22 men and precipitated the Exclusion Bill Crisis. Eventually Oates's intricate web of accusations fell apart, leading to his arrest and conviction for perjury. The fictitious Popish Plot must be understood against the background of the English Reformation and the subsequent development of a strong anti-Catholic sentiment among the mostly"
"Political Scrapbook Political Scrapbook is a left wing political blog. The site was described as ""influential"" by ""The Independent"" and is viewed, along with outlets such as ""Left Foot Forward"", as part of a cohort of British left-wing blogs which have attracted significant interest from the media. The site has been likened to Paul Staines' anti-establishment ""Guido Fawkes"" blog, although Staines has claimed ""It's hard to create a leftwing version of me because of political correctness."" In 2011 the site was ranked by Wikio as the 7th most influential political blog in the UK and was voted as ""Total Politics'"""
"Historie"", though, is generally considered to be a reliable source. Johnson may have been an assumed alias. As Johnson's accounts have been corroborated in personal and official dispatches, Lee (1974) considers that whoever he was, he had some access to official correspondence. Konstam speculates further, suggesting that Johnson may have been the English playwright Charles Johnson, the British publisher Charles Rivington, or the writer Daniel Defoe. In his 1951 work ""The Great Days of Piracy"", author George Woodbury wrote that Johnson is ""obviously a pseudonym"", continuing ""one cannot help suspecting that he may have been a pirate himself."" Despite his"