Gavin Mortimer

Brigitte Macron has lost France’s sympathy

31 October 2025 1:02 am

Ten people have been on trial this week in Paris, accused of transphobic cyberbullying against Brigitte Macron. France’s first lady,…

Is DEI to blame for the Louvre heist?

27 October 2025 12:36 am

Police in Paris have arrested two men after the “heist of the century” at the Louvre museum. According to the…

‘One in, one out’ is dead

23 October 2025 7:23 pm

France is not a safe country. That was the excuse given by an Iranian man who returned to Britain last…

France has failed its daughters

22 October 2025 5:46 pm

It is just over three years since a 12-year-old Parisian girl called Lola was raped and murdered in a crime…

Why the French are dreaming of a Donald Trump à la française

17 October 2025 9:43 pm

A year ago Donald J Trump was still roundly disliked by the French commentariat. Even the conservative Le Figaro newspaper held its…

Macron’s story has become a Shakespearean tragedy

12 October 2025 12:19 am

This week has been a tale of two presidents. On the one hand there is Donald Trump, who has masterminded…

Sébastien Lecornu’s exit is a humiliation for France – and for Macron

6 October 2025 8:48 pm

In a sensational development, Sébastien Lecornu has resigned as prime minister of France. His departure, after 27 days in office,…

When will David Lammy learn that Nazi smears don’t work?

1 October 2025 9:04 pm

Is the Third Reich living rent-free in David Lammy’s head? Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister has accused Donald Trump of being a…

Macron is abandoning France’s Jews by recognising Palestine

22 September 2025 4:00 pm

France will today officially recognise the state of Palestine at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. In justifying…

Has France become ungovernable?

19 September 2025 5:38 pm

One million people protested in France yesterday. That was according to the trade unions, who organised the day of industrial…

Pope Leo is naive about Europe’s migrant crisis

15 September 2025 8:15 pm

Giorgia Meloni has not cracked Italy’s migrant crisis. On the contrary, the number of migrants crossing the central Mediterranean is…

The far-left failed to bring France to a standstill

11 September 2025 5:41 pm

There were over 500 arrests and numerous violent incidents across France on Wednesday but the far-left failed to bring the…

Why the French fear the far-left

10 September 2025 4:37 pm

A caller to a French radio station on Monday morning said he supported Marine Le Pen’s National Rally. However, he…

Macron’s France is descending into chaos

9 September 2025 6:04 am

As expected, the government of François Bayrou has lost its vote of confidence in the National Assembly. Three hundred and…

For the good of France, Macron must go

8 September 2025 3:15 pm

This evening Emmanuel Macron will almost certainly be searching for his fifth prime minister since January last year. Francois Bayrou’s…

Keir Starmer must not ban Eric Zemmour from Britain

2 September 2025 3:17 pm

Eric Zemmour will be in London on 13 September at the invitation of Tommy Robinson. In a message posted on…

Angela Merkel unleashed chaos on Europe

31 August 2025 4:30 pm

A decade ago today, on 31 August 2015, Angela Merkel made the unilateral decision to open Europe’s borders. The rallying…

France has lost control of its borders

27 August 2025 10:23 pm

The cynic might wonder if Keir Starmer and his government aren’t a little relieved that France is once more on…

Macron is blind to the decivilisation of France

26 August 2025 3:40 pm

For the second time in a week, Emmanuel Macron has been criticised for allowing antisemitism to run riot in France.…

France is in denial about its migrant hotels

21 August 2025 8:49 pm

The High Court victory of Epping Forest District Council has made news in France. The decision to temporarily block migrants…

Has France got what it takes to stand up to the Islamists?

18 August 2025 5:24 pm

In the early 1990s, an underground organisation was launched called the Barbie Liberation Movement (BLM). Its mission statement was a…

The small boats crisis is getting worse. What’s Labour’s plan?

13 August 2025 11:28 pm

How long it seems since the then Home Secretary Sajid Javid declared a ‘major incident’ in the Channel on account…

Keir Starmer should smash the gig economy

12 August 2025 9:47 pm

No Frenchman has been as critical as the recent ‘one in, one out’ migrant deal than Xavier Bertrand. A grandee…

Starmer has given control of Britain’s borders to France

6 August 2025 7:20 pm

Britain’s ‘one in one out’ migrant deal with France takes effect today, and Prime Minister Keir Starmer issued a stark…

What France’s fight against Islamism can teach Labour

6 August 2025 12:45 am

So far this year France has deported 64 individuals from its database of radical Islamists. More are planned in the…