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Guido Co-conspirators’ Top 12 Book Buys

Guido Fawkes — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 00:59:12 +0000

Guido’s blog reading co-conspirators are massive consumers of books, usually bought online courtesy of Amazon. According to the online retailer our reader’s favourite top purchases of 2011 were:

E-editions and books were combined. Pugnacious Mehdi Hasan really should be less chippy given how many of his books Guido helps shift…

Tagged: Evidence Based Blogging, Red Book, Statistics

How Many Laws Has Byers Confessed to Breaking? Win a Prize Competition

Guido Fawkes — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:27:38 +0000

Guido knows that hundreds of loafing lawyers read this blog, he also knows lawyers never do anything for free, so he is offering a reward of a copy of The Big Red Book of New Labour Sleaze to those who provide the best argued charges against Byers. Either post them in the comments or email them to Guido.Fawkes@Order-Order.com (entries will be anonymous, don’t worry).

According to Channel 4′s Dispatches, which worked on the joint investigation with the Sunday Times, Byers confessed that:

He had secured secret deals with ministers.
Could get confidential information from Number 10.
Was able to help firms involved in price-fixing get round the law.
Boasted he had struck a secret deal with Lord Adonis, the Transport Secretary, to terminate a rail franchise contract for a client, National Express.
Persuaded Lord Mandelson, to amend regulations on food labelled on behalf of Tesco.

Byers now says he was lying, surely not the best defence to use in Court.

Tagged: M'learned Friends, Red Book

The Big Red Story of the Day

Guido Fawkes — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:19:00 +0000

Of course the really big story of the day is that today sees the launch of the Big Red Book of New Labour Sleaze updated to include all the latest shenanigans and with a bit more of a focus on Gordon Brown.

It has been written by bloggers with contributions from across the spectrum of the political blogosphere. It is in the bookshops this week or you can buy it online by clicking on the picture. And you can expect a little viral advertising campaign with a difference soon…

The Big Red Book of New Labour Sleaze

Guido Fawkes — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:36:00 +0000

Have just finished Guido’s last contribution to the new expanded follow-up edition to our last bestseller, The Big Red Book of New Labour Sleaze produced by writers from across the blogosphere. It should be in bookshops in three weeks, conveniently just in time for Brown’s coronation. It will of course include more Brownite misdemeanours that we may have over-looked in the past.

So Guido’s focus is back on the blog and political tittle-tattle just in time for the fun to begin with the next round of Loans-for-Lordships interviews. Guido has not missed the fact that Blair’s people have been re-bailed, with the police looking set to strengthen their case before charges are brought.

Have no fear, charges will, one way or another, be brought.

Police Keeping Close Watch on Levy

Guido Fawkes — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:30:00 +0000

There has been some speculation that the CPS could place charges as soon as June, which will coincide nicely with the Blair-Brown handover and the publication of the follow-up Big Red Book of New Labour Sleaze. Guido is also working on another book, with the working title “The Trial of Lord Levy”, for publication, on the advice of lawyers, after the verdict.

While researching the latter book it has come to Guido’s notice that, somewhat bizarrely for a man on police bail, whenever Sleazy Levy is in public he can invariably be seen being kept under the watchful eye of the Metropolitan Police. Guido understands that they are for his personal protection, not surveillance.

Guido never knew it could be so dangerous in leafy Mill Hill…

Iain & Guido’s Christmas Party Drinks

Guido Fawkes — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 14:24:00 +0000

Iain and Guido have not forgotten the promised party for The Little Red Book of New Labour Sleaze contributors and our friends. We’ve booked this Friday 15th because it clashes with nothing important that we have been invited to and obviously nothing and nobody important in politics would forget to invite either of us…

Invitations for for mulled wine and nibbles will be emailed shortly…