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Paul Staines (Paul De Laire Staines) was born on 11 February, 1967 in Ealing, London, England, is a British right-wing political blogger (born 1967). Discover Paul Staines's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 57 years old?

Popular As Paul De Laire Staines
Occupation Political blogger
Age 57 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 11 February, 1967
Birthday 11 February
Birthplace Ealing, London, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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1605

The blog was named after the Spanish name for Guy Fawkes, an English Catholic involved in the failed Gunpowder Plot to assassinate King James I in 1605.

Paul De Laire Staines was born in Ealing, London, to Irish-born Mary (née Cronin) and Indian-born Terril De Laire Staines.

Staines' father was a Fabian who went to work for John Lewis because it was a cooperative; he is from Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh.

Staines' mother is from a working-class background and grew up in Finglas, Dublin.

Staines grew up in Sudbury, London.

Raised a Catholic, he attended Salvatorian College Catholic grammar school in Harrow.

Subsequently, he read business information studies at the Humberside College of Higher Education, but did not complete the course.

While a student there Staines wrote to an organiser of the British National Party proposing joint "direct action" to disrupt the meetings of leftwing students.

He was a member of the Social Democratic Party, sitting on the national executive of its youth wing, and the Conservative Party.

1967

Paul De Laire Staines (born 11 February 1967) is a British-Irish right-wing political blogger who publishes the Guido Fawkes website, which was described by The Daily Telegraph as "one of Britain's leading political blogsites" in 2007.

1980

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 a trader.

Whilst studying at college in Hull in the 1980s, he was a member of the Federation of Conservative Students.

Staines lives in Ireland and was a member of the now defunct Irish political party, the Progressive Democrats.

1987

He was pictured at the 1987 Libertarian Alliance conference with a T-shirt supporting UNITA, produced by his Popular Propaganda enterprise (while at college), which produced posters and T-shirts.

Staines worked as "foreign policy analyst" for the Committee for a Free Britain, a right-wing Conservative pressure group, alongside David Hart.

Staines acted 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" that sought to "smear Labour MPs and left-leaning lawyers and writers".

Staines relates of his work with the committee:

"I was lobbying at the Council of Europe and at Parliament; I was over in Washington, in Jo'burg, in South America. It was 'let's get guns for the Contras', that sort of stuff. I was enjoying it immensely, I got to go with these guys and fire off AK-47s. I always like to go where the action is, and for that period in the Reagan/Thatcher days, it was great fun, it was all expenses paid and I got to see the world. I used to think that World Briefing was a bit funny. The only scary thing about those publications was the mailing list – people like George Bush – and the fact that Hart would talk to the head of British Intelligence for an hour. I used to think it was us having a laugh, putting some loony right-wing sell in, and that somebody somewhere was taking it seriously. You've got to understand that we had a sense of humour about this."

1989

In 1989, Staines published In the Grip of the Sandinistas: Human Rights in Nicaragua 1979–1989, under the auspices of the International Society for Human Rights (of which he was UK secretary-general), analysing the Sandinistas in Nicaragua from 1979 to 1989.

He was then the editor of a series of papers called the Human Rights Defenders Briefing Papers.

2000

Staines is a libertarian who described in a 2000 publication, how he became a libertarian in 1980 after reading Karl Popper's The Open Society and its Enemies.

He joined the Young Conservatives whilst at Humberside College of Higher Education, "because they were the only people around who were anti-Socialist or at least anti-Soviet".

Having joined the Federation of Conservative Students, he described his politics as "Thatcher on drugs".

He 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".

He once said, "I never wore a 'Hang Mandela' badge, but I hung out with people who did".

Staines was active in the Libertarian Alliance.

2001

In 2001, he sued his fund's financial backer in a commercial dispute.

2002

Staines has four alcohol-related convictions In 2002, Staines was banned from driving for 12 months for drink driving.

When he was convicted of the same offence six years later, he was asked in court by District Judge Timothy Stone whether he had an alcohol problem and replied: "Possibly."

He was banned from driving for three years, as well as being given an 18-month supervision order and wearing an electronic tag for three months.

2003

Consequently, Staines declared himself bankrupt in October 2003 after two years of litigation, and legal costs on both sides running into hundreds of thousands of pounds.

2004

In September 2004, Staines started publishing his political blog Guido Fawkes.

2011

In August 2011, Staines —who writes the political blog Guido Fawkes and heads the Restore Justice Campaign—launched an e-petition on the Downing Street website calling for the restoration of the death penalty for those convicted of the murder of children and police officers.

The petition was one of several in support or opposition of capital punishment to be published by the government with the launch of its e-petitions website.

Petitions attracting 100,000 signatures would prompt a parliamentary debate on a particular topic, but not necessarily lead to any Parliamentary Bills being put forward.

2012

When the petition closed on 4 February 2012 it had received 26,351 signatures in support of restoring capital punishment,

2013

The Sun on Sunday newspaper published a weekly Guido Fawkes column from 2013 to 2016.

Born and raised in England, Staines holds British and Irish citizenship.

Staines described his political journey in an interview in 2013, "I was "anarcho-capitalist, [then] libertarian, then pragmatic libertarian." He went on to say his ideology was now closer to the Conservatives and UKIP. He supports Brexit. In 2023, the New Statesman named Cruddas the 39th most powerful right-wing British political figure of the year.