Paul Staines Biography
Paul Staines (born: Paul Delaire Staines) is a British right-wing political blogger who publishes the Guido Fawkes website. Guido Fawkes was described by The Daily Telegraph as “one of Britain’s leading political blogsites” in 2007.
From 2013 to 2016, The Sun on Sunday newspaper published a weekly Guido Fawkes column from 2013 to 2016. He gained interest in politics as a libertarian in the 1980s and did public relations for acid house parties in the early 1990s.
He also spent several years in finance, first as a broker then as a trader. Staines also sued his fund’s financial backer in a commercial dispute in 2001. Finally, he declared himself bankrupt in October 2003. This was after two years of litigation, and also legal costs on both sides running into hundreds of thousands of pounds.
He began the “Guido Fawkes Blog of plots, rumors, and conspiracy” in September 2004.
Paul Staines College
Staines studied at Salvatorian College Catholic grammar school in Harrow. Later, he attended the Humberside College of Higher Education (now the University of Lincoln) to study business information studies. However, he did not complete the course.
During his early days, Staines was a member of the Social Democratic Party, sitting on the national executive of its youth wing and also the Conservative Party.
Paul Staines Picture
Staines also studied at a college in Hull in the 1980s. While there, he was a member of the Federation of Conservative Students. He also won the UK Atari Asteroids video games championship in 1981 and going on to finish ninth in the world championships held in Washington D.C.
Paul Staines Age
Paul De Laire Staines was born on 11 February 1967 in Ealing, London, England. He is 52 years old as of 2019.
Paul Staines Family
Staines was born to Irish-born Mary (née Cronin) and Indian-born Terril De Laire Staines. His father was a Fabian and went to work for John Lewis because it was a cooperative. Terril is from Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh; his mother is from a working-class background in Dublin. Staines grew up in Sudbury, London and is also an Irish citizen.
Paul Staines Wife
Staines is married to Orla Staines, a high-flying solicitor who works for a bank in the City of London. Orla has appeared not to share his enthusiasm. Staines has also admitted that she was “livid” when she found out he was hawking the emails around Fleet Street for £20,000.
The couple has two daughters together.
Paul Staines MessageSpace
MessageSpace is a digital advertising agency which operates an advertising network representing dozens of leading political websites. It was founded by Staines along with Internet entrepreneur and political strategist Jag Singh in 2006.
MessageSpace advised the successful Boris Johnson London mayoral campaign in 2012. In June 2012, Private Eye reported that the agency
was advising the Russian Embassy in London on using social media.
Global & General Nominees Limited which is St Kitts and Nevis-based publishes the Guido Fawkes blog. Paul also describes himself as an adviser to GGN where he is a director.
Paul Staines Libertarian
Staines is a committed libertarian. In a 2000 publication, he has described how he became a libertarian in 1980 after reading Karl Popper’s The Open Society and its Enemies.
At Humberside College of Higher Education, Staines joined the Young Conservatives, “because they were the only people around who were anti-Socialist or at least anti-Soviet”. During that time, he joined the Federation of Conservative Students and described his politics
as “Thatcher on drugs”.
Staines also relates that at college he was a “right-wing pain in the butt who was more interested in student politics than essays”, who went on “to work in the various right-wing pressure groups and think tanks that proliferated in the late eighties”.
Paul Staines Alliance
Staines was pictured at the 1987 Libertarian Alliance conference with a T-shirt supporting UNITA. It was produced by his Popular Propaganda enterprise (while at college). It produced posters and T-shirts.
He also worked as a “foreign policy analyst” for the Committee for a Free Britain, a right-wing Conservative pressure group, alongside David Hart. He served as editor of British Briefing, a long-standing publication by the group that was a “monthly intelligence analysis of the activities of the extreme left”. It sought to “smear Labour MPs and left-leaning lawyers and writers”.
Paul Staines Website
Staines founded the Global Growth Org website. It is a campaigning group for free trade for the third world. The website’s campaign included support for microcredit. It also started a pharmaceutical campaign to “promote the tariff-free trading of drugs in the developing world. It was also to defend the re-importation and also parallel trading of pharmaceuticals in the rich industrialized nations.
The campaigns were also to lobby legislators for patient-friendly duration limit”.
Paul Staines Guido Fawkes
Staines began writing the right-wing website in September 2004. The name Guido Fawkes was an alternative name of Guy Fawkes, one of the group that plotted to blow up the Palace of Westminster in 1605.
Guido Fawkes was voted the best in the Political Commentary category of The Backbencher Political Weblog Awards, run by The Guardian in 2005. It was an online poll linked to the Guido Fawkes site and was not a poll of Guardian readers specifically.
Guido Fawkes co-authored a book with Iain Dale on May 2016. This was critical of the Labour Party’s practices since taking office in 1997.
RTÉ broadcast a documentary about Staines, “Our Man in Westminster” in 2012.
Paul Staines Net Worth
Staines has been in the media and advertising industry for some time now, Through his career, he has amassed great wealth and made a big name. However, his net worth is not yet revealed to the public.
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