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Marshalling in a new era

 

Dan Wootton’s suspension this week as an anchor at the UK’s right-wing GB News station left many viewers baffled. His on-screen behaviour invited it (see below) but he’d already survived reports that he’d tricked or bribed scores of men – including former colleagues – into sending him nude photos and videos. Why now?

 

Also this week, analysts said 21 potential bidders have expressed an interest in buying the The Daily Telegraphincluding GB News co-owner Paul Marshall. 

 

So what? The two could be connected. Wootton’s fall looks like Marshall clearing the decks in an attempt to prove he’s a respectable media owner. Wootton has been collecting Ofcom complaints since his first appearance on the channel, when he presented a fiery monologue on the “madness” of Covid lockdowns. On Tuesday he burbled and guffawed as the actor Lawrence Fox delivered a misogynistic tirade about a female journalist. 

 

 

 

An auction for the Telegraph is expected within weeks and the stakes for Marshall – and the British media landscape – are high:

 

 

 

  • Marshall wants to make GB News the centre of the next Tory leadership race.
  • To that end he’s employed Conservative MPs Lee Anderson, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Esther McVey and Philip Davies as presenters.
  • Owning The Telegraph would cement him as Tory kingmaker.
  • But Ofcom, the regulator, can be expected to take a close look at GB News before allowing it.

 

 

 

“We don’t see Paul Marshall as being a risk-free bidder,” says Dr Alice Enders, head of research at Enders Analysis. “GB News is not making the bid, but the issue of material influence will be considered.”

 

The little hedgie that could. Sir Paul Roderick Clucas Marshall is fringe media’s Murdoch. Co-founder of the short-selling hedge fund Marshall Wace, his first media venture, in 2017, was the opinion website UnHerd – motto “Challenging the herd with new and bold thinking”. Marshall was enticed into UnHerd by founder and former Timescomment editor Tim Montgomerie, who resigned a year after its launch. Marshall’s next step was co-founding GB News and sticking with the channel through its early troubles (it was mocked for low production standards and Andrew Neil abruptly departed as launch anchor). 

 

Who’s in Paul’s army? Marshall’s consortium includes the anti-Trump US Republican Ken Griffin, founder of Citadel, a hedge fund with $62 billion in assets under management. While the Telegraph’s expected asking price of £480 million would all but clean out Marshall’s £630 million net worth, Griffin brings $35 billion in personal wealth to the party. 

 

 

 

Liberal, Actually? Described in one interview as possessing “the bushy hair and quiet, gentle manner of a character from a Richard Curtis sitcom”, Marshall doesn’t present as a determined anti-wokester. He spent most of his political life as a LibDem, working as a research assistant for Charles Kennedy, standing unsuccessfully for the party in Fulham in 1987 and backing the so-called Orange Book free-market LibDem sect that pushed the party into coalition with the Conservatives in 2010. He donated to the LibDems until 2014.

 

Brexit through the gift shop.Marshall’s Road to Damascus went through Brussels – he fervently and financially backed the Leave campaign, persuading Michael Gove to join him. Gove’s move enticed Boris Johnson to the Leave camp and Marshall backed Gove’s short-lived leadership campaign in return. Like many Brexiteers, Marshall has recently opened a Dublin office and is married to a European – his French-Hungarian wife Sabina runs an antiques shop.

 

The zeal of the convert. Marshall went to Merchant Taylors’ School in Northwood – motto: “producing gentlemen since 1561” – and says he loves Schumann, Fleetwood Mac, Manchester United and Jesus, worshipping at London’s Holy Trinity Brompton network of churches since 1997. Griffin is also a committed Christian.

 

Soros giveth… Marshall’s City career led through the $10 trillion asset management firm BlackRock to founding his own firm in 1997 with £25 million from the conspiracy world’s second-most hated figure (after Bill Gates), George Soros. Marshall Wace and BlackRock often invest together – including in Rumble, a video site currently sheltering Russell Brand’s earnings.

 

… and he giveth back. Marshall does a lot for charity but doesn’t like to talk about it. He is chairman of Ark Schools, a chain of 40 academies, and founder of the Education Policy Institute and the Marshall Institute for Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship. 

 

Marshall & sons. Marshall’s kids Winston and Giovanna are musicians. Winston was the banjo plucker in Mumford & Sons until he praised the right-wing journalist Andy Ngo’s book attacking Antifa and departed the band. Winston now fanboys Jordan Peterson and hosts a podcast for the Spectator, owned by the Telegraph and thus, potentially, by his father. 
 

 

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19 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

Can you report people to the Pope/inquisition/Opus Dei etc? I feel a GF worded email coming on. 

 

Careful what you wish for, traditionally when that happens they just move them to a new parish, last thing you need is to be out getting a pint of milk and seeing him ushering a school bus full of kids into your local church.

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3 hours ago, Section_31 said:

He's not even a legitimate minister this clown apparently, part of some blag church.

 

The Church of England, not known for its high bar for entry, wouldn't ordain him.

 

He is mocked as a cosplay priest, but I find him really sinister.

 

I know most people on here are outspoken against Christianity/the Christian church, and I do understand that, but the truth is that Jesus was born into poverty, lived as a refugee, cared for the under class and lived a life of compassion and sacrifice.

 

People like that bloke who looks like an unwelcome guest at a tarts and vicars party are just vicious bigots who live life as the antithesis of Jesus' teachings.

 

He likes the God of Leviticus, and hates Jesus of well, the four gospels.  He is offensive.

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This makes grim, if predictable, reading. Cosplay cleric Calvin Clown invited a genuine Anglican priest to appear on his GB News show to talk about abortion, then denounced him as wicked and encouraged a pile-on that included death threats.


https://www.newstatesman.com/quickfire/2022/12/cancelled-calvin-robinson-gb-news-free-speech

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