Paul Staines

About

Blogger behind one of Britain's leading political blogsites known as Guido Fawkes. He held a popular weekly column in the Sun on Sunday taking a libertarian stance. He co-founded MessageSpace, which is a digital advertising agency representing several political websites.

Before Fame

He started doing public relations for acids parties in the early 1990s after taking interest in politics as a libertarian.

Trivia

He won the UK Atari Asteroids video game championship in 1981.

Family Life

He was born Paul De Laire Staines in Ealing, London, but is better known under his blogging moniker Guido Fawkes, a name inspired by English revolutionist Guy Fawkes.

Associated With

TV host Piers Morgan is one of his biggest enemies in the blogosphere.