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Guido Fawkes

Sunday 29th July 2007 17:53 in Politics | 31 views logged | No comments

Guido Fawkes This rather messy and advertising-ridden web site is run by a certain Paul Staines, and it revels in (by its own admission) “tittle tattle, gossip and rumours about Westminster”. Happy to dish it out, Mr Staines (who made his money in hedge funds and hides behind the name of an attempted murderer) is a little more shy when it comes to actually saying things openly under his own name. He was outraged when his identity was revealed.

I agree with the likes of Nick Robinson and Jeremy Paxman that his utterly irreverent and cynical musings are are on the whole not admirable or helpful and do not constitute serious journalism. They are just cheap pot-shots from a distance – in fact it is rather like a tabloid on the Internet.

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