Gavin Mortimer

Macron remains in denial over Europe’s migrant crisis

10 May 2023 9:14 pm

Tuesday was ‘Europe Day’, or as the European Union proclaimed on its website, the occasion to ‘celebrate peace and unity’…

Macron, not Meloni, is to blame for Europe’s migrant crisis

5 May 2023 10:30 pm

France and Germany have fallen out again after the French interior minister Gérald Darmanin accused Italy’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni of…

Does the UN want to defund the French police?

3 May 2023 5:09 pm

My first instinct was to check the date: was it actually April 1st on Monday? On realising there was no…

Marine Le Pen is revelling in the mayhem of Macron

2 May 2023 5:33 pm

It is almost six years to the day since Marine Le Pen went head to head with Emmanuel Macron in…

France’s crackdown on illegal immigrants comes unstuck

27 April 2023 5:59 pm

In the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte, France is getting tough on illegal immigrants. Authorities launched Operation Wuambushu (Take Back)…

Can Meloni and Sunak unite to tackle Europe’s migrant crisis?

24 April 2023 5:56 pm

The number keep rising. Italy’s Interior Ministry announced at the weekend that 35,085 migrants have arrived on their shores this…

Macron has left Marseille at the mercy of violent drug gangs

22 April 2023 5:00 pm

Five months and counting until France hosts the Rugby World Cup. For England supporters, the tournament kicks off at the…

Does Macron regret celebrating Lula’s Brazilian victory?

18 April 2023 6:16 pm

The headline in the Guardian could not have spelt it out more clearly: ‘World leaders rush to congratulate Lula on…

The French left is becoming anti-woke

16 April 2023 4:30 pm

Nearly one in two left-wing voters in France believes the country has too many immigrants. When the same polling company…

Is Giorgia Meloni stoking Britain’s migrant crisis?

11 April 2023 5:07 pm

In the last week over 1,000 migrants have crossed the English Channel, which is twice the number of people that…

The French left is in thrall to violence

7 April 2023 5:56 pm

Since the middle of March in France, 1,247 Gendarmes, police and fire fighters have been injured in the line of…

France’s Boomers have a lot to answer for

4 April 2023 5:57 pm

Paris has banned e-scooters after the people were asked to vote in a referendum. Not many of the capital’s 1.38…

Did Brexit save Britain from France’s fate?

1 April 2023 5:00 pm

Stéphane Rozès, the author of a book entitled ‘Chaos’, was on French radio this week receiving congratulations for being a…

Is Macron heading for his Margaret Thatcher moment?

29 March 2023 9:00 pm

There was a sense of foreboding in France at the start of this week. After the anarchy of last Thursday…

Why Macron cancelled the King

25 March 2023 7:41 pm

Many on the French left were in buoyant mood on Friday after the success of the previous day. They claimed…

France is on a knife edge

24 March 2023 6:36 pm

Thursday was a day of anarchy in France. In Lorient a police station was attacked, in Bordeaux a town hall…

Has Emmanuel Macron become France’s ‘Caligula’?

21 March 2023 6:23 pm

The government of Emmanuel Macron won a vote of no confidence in the National Assembly on Monday by a mere…

Why Macron doesn’t fear the Parisian street protests

17 March 2023 9:50 pm

France is on the brink of another revolution! The proles are swarming to the barricades and it’s only a matter…

Paris is stinking

15 March 2023 6:56 pm

They say Spring is a magical time to visit Paris but perhaps not this year. It’s not so much love…

How Albania’s mafia took control of Europe’s trafficking network

14 March 2023 7:08 pm

America must get tough against the Mexican drug cartels, former US Attorney General, William Barr, declared earlier this month. Likening them…

Sunak needs more than Macron’s help to crack the Channel crisis

11 March 2023 5:30 pm

There was more than a whiff of ‘bromance’ between Rishi Sunak and Emmanuel Macron when they met at the Anglo-French…

Can Macron get through the day without insulting the Brits?

10 March 2023 6:18 pm

The editorial in today’s Le Figaro heralds the dawn of a 21st century Entente Cordiale and the newspaper carries an interview…

Failing to stop the Channel crisis will cost Rishi Sunak his job

6 March 2023 7:44 pm

Finding an effective solution to Europe’s migrant crisis has eluded the continent’s leaders for a decade. Presidents, prime ministers and…

How much longer will MI5 cloak its incompetence in secrecy?

3 March 2023 8:48 pm

The incompetence of MI5 in failing to prevent Salman Abedi detonating his bomb at the Manchester Arena in 2017 beggars…

Elly Schlein shouldn’t be a problem for Georgia Meloni

1 March 2023 10:29 pm

There is much excitement among western Europe’s chattering classes after Elly Schlein was elected the new leader of Italy’s left-wing…