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Saturday, November 21, 2009 11:53 PM

Published 11/04/2009 by Guardian.co.uk


Guido Fawkes: The blogger who knows the power of gossip

Andy Beckett meets the rightwing mischief-maker whose 'tittle tattle' is feared by cabinet ministers

Guido Fawkes, real name Paul Staines, runs a gossipy, tabloid-style blog. Photograph: Sarah Lee

For a decade starting in the early 90s, every July a young Irishman with a...

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...when he was 35, "I used to wait in the town square about halfway along the track and run from there" he remembers...
Guido Fawkes: The blogger who knows the power of gossip [Guardian.co.uk - 11/04/2009]
...he remembers. "That year, the cannon goes off for the start. I carry on chatting to a nervous boy from Essex. I tell him, 'Just wait until we see the bulls.' Suddenly he pelts. Next thing I know, I wake up in an ambulance."
Guido Fawkes: The blogger who knows the power of gossip [Guardian.co.uk - 11/04/2009]
...in its manifesto, "was purely to make mischief at the expense of politicians and for the author's own self-gratification . . . to create a more fun, gossipy and acerbic anti-politicsform of commentary . . . [with] tabloid news values . . . Guido campaigns against political sleaze and hypocrisy. He doesn't believe in impartiality."
Guido Fawkes: The blogger who knows the power of gossip [Guardian.co.uk - 11/04/2009]

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