So Gordon Brown sacrificed his only begotten spin doctor over the Easter weekend. Sadface. The man who leaked the emails that toppled Damian McBride was Guido Fawkes – real name Paul Staines and already the biggest cheese on the UK’s political blogging scene, often dubbed “Popbitch with a blue rosette”. Less well known is that, before he was the scourge of the political classes, Staines was the self-styled saviour of rave. Read more »
