Gavin Mortimer

Have Londoners forgotten how to stand up to anti-Semites?

24 April 2024 4:00 pm

There are some among the tens of thousands who march through London each week who genuinely seek peace in Gaza.…

Iran should be banned from the Paris Olympics

19 April 2024 6:46 pm

Few would disagree with Ben Wallace’s description of Iran as a ‘bully’. The former defence secretary made his comments earlier…

Why is the mayor of Tehran welcome in Brussels but not Nigel Farage?

17 April 2024 6:32 pm

‘How do you think this looks to the rest of the world?’ asked Nigel Farage as police attempted to shut…

France and Britain have both shamefully neglected the white working class

15 April 2024 5:34 pm

Emmanuel Macron told a communist newspaper earlier this year that he didn’t consider Marine le Pen’s National Rally part of…

Germanophobia is growing in France

13 April 2024 6:30 pm

There was a time earlier this century when few politicians in France would dare criticise Germany. The country was the…

Macron vs Putin: this summer’s Olympic battle

13 April 2024 9:00 am

Dixmont, Yonne Last summer, Emmanuel Macron lashed out at France’s constitution because it prevents him from running for a third…

The EU’s migrant pact is worthless

11 April 2024 7:45 pm

It has been a bloody April in France. Last week a 13-year-old girl of Algerian origin was beaten unconscious, allegedly by her…

The plot to bring down Emmanuel Macron

9 April 2024 9:52 pm

Last week Emmanuel Macron inaugurated the Olympic aquatic centre that will host the swimming and diving events at this summer’s…

France’s schools are succumbing to the Islamist threat

5 April 2024 9:05 pm

A 13-year-old Muslim girl was beaten unconscious outside her school gates in Montpellier in southern France on Tuesday. Her mother…

A leftist revolution won’t stop Marine Le Pen

3 April 2024 6:49 pm

A well-known French radio comedian recently suggested an armed revolution in the event Marine Le Pen is elected President in…

The alarming rise of the middle-aged terrorist

1 April 2024 5:32 pm

Police in Paris last week arrested a man suspected of planning an attack against a church. That in itself was…

The French want weed, not wine

29 March 2024 5:00 pm

Across France this Easter families will gather to eat, drink and, in many cases, smoke drugs. There are five million…

Europe must tighten its borders to combat the Islamist threat

26 March 2024 9:39 pm

Europe is on a state of high alert after Friday’s Islamist attack in Moscow that left 137 concertgoers dead. France…

Can Macron halt the ‘Mexicanisation’ of France?

24 March 2024 5:00 pm

Emmanuel Macron showed off his virility this week with the release of two photos in which he is seen giving…

Putin is as deluded about the Islamist threat as the West

24 March 2024 2:46 am

From the outset it was obvious to seasoned observers who massacred more than 130 Russians at a concert hall Moscow…

What the French left could learn from Keir Starmer

19 March 2024 8:45 pm

Last week on Spectator TV Fraser Nelson saluted the ‘intervention’ of the Labour party in the debate about whether the…

The EU is divided in its bid to stop the boats

18 March 2024 9:57 pm

There was good and bad news for the European Union last week: the number of migrants arriving in Europe on…

Will France’s Olympians embarrass Macron?

16 March 2024 5:15 pm

France host England tonight in the final match of the 2024 Six Nations. ‘Le Crunch’, as this fixture has come…

Emmanuel Macron and the reason being a parent in politics matters

15 March 2024 6:29 pm

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky spoke to the French press this week and passed on a message to the people. ‘Your…

Is Giorgia Meloni a secret centrist?

12 March 2024 7:13 pm

When it became clear in September 2022 that Giorgia’s Meloni right-wing coalition was on course to win Italy’s general election,…

Macron’s war-mongering talk is unnerving Europe

8 March 2024 7:06 pm

Relations between German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron have always been strained but they’re now positively hostile.…

Will Macron grant the Saudis their Olympics request?

6 March 2024 5:00 pm

Britain and its government has a well deserved reputation for kow-towing to foreign investors. But even they (one hopes) would…

Is Rishi Sunak too late to stop the spread of Islamism?

4 March 2024 8:00 pm

Rishi Sunak has joined the long line of prime ministers who have declared that enough is enough, and the country…

China’s nickname for Macron is perfect

1 March 2024 9:51 pm

Alexei Navalny is being laid to rest in Moscow today, a fortnight after the Russian opposition leader was found dead…