Q. Where does the nickname “Tory Paul” come from?
A. I can’t remember the first time someone used this nickname for me, but it originated in the pub with the Megalomaniacs when they found out that I was a member of the Conservative party. It was also a useful way to distinguish which Paul people were speaking to, since there were two of us with the same name. Most of Warped also refer to me by the same nickname.

Q. Where did the name “Rogue Tory” originate from?
A. The “Tory” part refers to my (ex-)membership of the UK Conservative Party, who are often known as the Tories (one day I’ll get round to writing up why this is). Although I was a member and agreed in principle with a lot of the policies (or rather they appealed to me more than any other party), I had serious misgivings with some of them and often criticised the way the party failed to listen to young people and kept harking back to the good ol’days of Thatcher, hence the “Rogue” part.

Q. Are you really a member of the Conservative party?
A. I used to be, but my membership expired a long time ago.

Q. Is your site endorsed by the Conservative party?
A. No. The only connection between the party and this site is the fact that I am (or rather, was) a member of the party.

Q. How come you’re always working on something new, and seem to have so many projects on at any one time?
A. I can’t tolerate standing around idle—I have to be constantly active otherwise I get bored. Even whilst I’m waiting for lectures to start, you’ll often see me scribbling rough notes on a scrap of paper because I’ve just had some inspiration for a new or existing idea. Apart from when I’m asleep, I’m usually thinking of a project to work on. If I ever appear to be in a world of my own, it’s because I’m lost in thought (or suitably drunk).

Q. What do you for a living?
A. First and foremost, I’m a student at university—so lectures, laboratory sessions and external work related to my course take up a lot of my time during the week. Apart from that, I’m a self-employed freelance agent working for various companies designing/maintaining web sites and also providing web hosting services.

Q. Can I link to your site?
A. Of course, you don’t need to ask permission to link to anyone’s site, let alone mine (in fact, I’m flattered that you want to link to me in the first place). You can link to any page you like, except the ones that are dynamically generated (e.g. the confirmation page after subscribing to a comment) because these rely on information from submitted forms to work properly and won’t make sense out of context.

You don’t need to worry about link rot as I won’t be changing my site structure for some time, and if I ever do I’ll leave redirects and logging in place to catch any stray visitors.

I’m afraid that I don’t have any pretty link buttons or banners for you to display, mainly because I couldn’t draw to save my life. A text link is fine, just point it to the page you want and let the browsers (and my server) take care of the details.

Q. Will you link to my blog?
A. Only if it’s available to the public (i.e. I don’t need to enter a password or something to read it) and I either read your blog regularly or know you in real life.