The Billionaire, the Bible, and the Battle for Britain

Sir Paul Marshall and the Rise of Elite Evangelical Nationalism

He funds newsrooms, churches, and schools – but what is driving ‘Britain’s newest media mogul’? James Bloodworth reports

Sir Paul Marshall, co-founder of asset management firm Marshall Wace, is one of the UK’s most powerful – but least scrutinised – political actors.

His personal fortune is immense. In recent years, his political views have grown more ideologically assertive. And his influence – spanning newsrooms, churches, and schools – reflects not so much the decline of the British establishment as its quiet radicalisation from within.

At the heart of Marshall’s political vision is a spiritual diagnosis: he believes that liberalism has “lost its moorings”, that the Enlightenment has corrupted society, and that only a revival of Christian values – as interpreted by a narrow and authoritarian strain of elite evangelicalism – can save Britain from moral collapse.