Paul Marshall

Although that's certainly not quite the progressive institution it once was either.

These days, in 2016, the London School of Economics announced the founding of the Marshall Institute, funded through a huge donation from GB News owner Paul Marshall.

He actually donated an extra £30 million to the Institute, which he humbly named after himself a couple of weeks ago.

And over time, the Fabian Society itself became as much a forum for discussion as a sort of campaigning organisation.

LGB News has remarkable links to the UAE itself.

Its two major shareholders are the Legatum Foundation, which is run by two New Zealand brothers, the Chandler brothers, which is completely based in the UAE, and Sir Paul Marshall.

who also is a spectator on Unheard and who, as a big hedge fund manager, also has a big office in the UEE and is never short of, like other senior figures in reform, is not short of praising the UEE as this wonderful business-friendly place.

Now, Marshall is not a member of reform, to my knowledge, but he is certainly someone who is not shy of talking about how great the UEE is.

So a little note about that chappy.

He is the son of Paul Marshall.

And Paul Marshall is the co-owner of GB News and also the owner of The Spectator and Unheard.

So I wonder who he's been influenced by.

Daddy.

I can't go to the doctor's.

But it's all right.

Paul Marshall's had a tax cut.

So I can't figure out, I can't put my finger on why now it's a problem.

They're backed by Paul Marshall, billionaire, and the company Legatum.

Legatum Institute,

yeah, this hedge fund out in the Middle East.

which is a battle which is ongoing in the UK at the moment for control over England's state church, the Church of England.

A battle which, on the political right, is being heavily funded by Paul Marshall, the owner of GB News, The Spectator, UnHerd, and perhaps most damning of all, father of Winston Marshall, the former banjoist from Mumford & Sons turned pretty cringe right-wing political commentator.

It's been quite the career he's had.

But I think the various things that this civil war within England's state church both does and doesn't share with US attempts to mainstream Christian nationalism are fascinating.

Because in many ways, if folks like Paul Marshall and his allies can inflict their particular right-wing politics on the Church of England, they would have kind of leapfrogged their American counterparts because the church in the UK is already the established church.

Or at least it is in England, we'll get to that shortly.

So, let's dive into all of this.

The overall strategy, however, appears to be to draw wider audiences of right-wing newspapers and TV channels into the otherwise internal fights within the Church of England to stamp out the chances of the reparations project actually coming to fruition, whilst also transforming these factional disputes within the state church into a flashpoint within the wider culture war.

So as far as the political coalition goes, There is definitely an attempt to force a coalition between the Conservatives and Reform.

You've got their media surrogates, including former minister Jake Rees-Mogg, including people on GB News, of which Farage has a show and is a shareholder, which is owned by a media mogul named Paul Marshall, who basically runs, you know, Ark and UnHerd and The Spectator and all these things.

He helped make Kimmy Badenoch's career.

He also introduced CEO Youssef to Nigel Farage.