Gavin Mortimer

The Islamists want to silence music the way they have free speech

25 August 2024 10:26 pm

The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack on Friday at a festival in Germany that left three people…

Why aren’t left-wing anti-immigration parties called fascists?

24 August 2024 4:30 pm

It is almost six years to the day since the charismatic German left-wing politician Sahra Wagenknecht launched a new movement…

This is only the start of the small boats crisis

20 August 2024 7:21 pm

Illegal immigrants continue to flow into England across the calm waters of the Channel. The latest data from the Home Office…

Why there is no two-tier policing in France

16 August 2024 5:19 pm

The phrase ‘without fear or favour’ has been much in the news of late. Whether the maxim is still applicable…

No EU migrant deal will stop the small boats

14 August 2024 8:49 pm

The sea lanes of Europe were busy last weekend. On Sunday, more than 700 migrants crossed the Channel from France…

Macron’s Olympic truce is well and truly over

13 August 2024 6:38 pm

Emmanuel Macron believes that the Paris Olympics have shown the world the ‘true face of France’. The Games were indeed…

Europe is worried that Britain’s riots might spread

7 August 2024 7:56 pm

The riots that have erupted across England in the last week have been splashed across Europe’s newspapers and broadcast on…

Even France is surprised by Britain’s riots

5 August 2024 5:58 pm

The riots that have erupted across Britain in the last week have been reported extensively in France. The centre-right Le Figaro describes…

The filthy Seine is a fitting symbol of Macron’s chaotic Olympics

30 July 2024 7:44 pm

The good news for France is that their athletes have been winning some medals in the Paris Olympics. The bad…

Was the far left to blame for France’s Olympic railway chaos?

29 July 2024 10:03 pm

Trains are again running normally in France today after engineers worked over the weekend to repair the damage caused by…

Chaos ensues hours before the Olympics

27 July 2024 1:29 am

France’s Olympics could not have got off to a worse start. Hundreds of thousands of train passengers have been left…

France descends into chaos on the Olympics’ opening day

26 July 2024 8:39 pm

France’s Olympics could not have got off to a worse start. Hundreds of thousands of train passengers have been left…

Why can’t French progressives be more civil?

22 July 2024 9:11 pm

There was a muted reaction among the French political class to the attempt on Donald’s Trump’s life. Keir Starmer sent…

Will the Paris Olympics be the final nail in Macron’s coffin?

20 July 2024 4:30 pm

The mayor of Paris went for a swim in the Seine on Wednesday and emerged invigorated. The water, said Anne…

It’s obvious who to blame for the mess France is in

18 July 2024 3:30 pm

Marine Le Pen appeared on television on Wednesday morning in her first major interview since last Sunday’s election. The leader…

Le Pen must be glad she isn’t presiding over France’s turmoil

16 July 2024 5:47 pm

It is bedlam in France. Nine days after the parliamentary elections that plunged the country into chaos, the political class…

France doesn’t have much to celebrate this Bastille Day

14 July 2024 4:31 pm

England play Spain tonight in Berlin in the final of the European Championships. Emmanuel Macron is a football fan so…

How the National Rally were discredited by the French media

12 July 2024 5:48 pm

The day after the French left had pulled off a sensational victory in the parliamentary elections one of their newly-elected…

The ugly selfishness of France’s politicians

9 July 2024 7:37 pm

France play Spain this evening in the semi-final of the European football championship, and there may be a smile on…

Macron has left France in chaos

8 July 2024 5:59 pm

Over a photo of a pensive Emmanuel Macron, the headline on the front of one French tabloid this morning asks:…

France stunned as Mélenchon’s Popular Front comes first in election

8 July 2024 6:58 am

In a sensational result that not even Jean-Luc Mélenchon himself could have imagined, his New Popular Front looks set to…

How Marine Le Pen rebranded herself

7 July 2024 5:13 pm

Marine Le Pen was called a ‘bitch’ this week and threatened with sexual violence. It’s what passes for rap music…

Macron’s France has much to learn from Britain’s peaceful election

6 July 2024 4:00 pm

The left-wing French newspaper Le Monde last month sent its London correspondent across Great Britain to gauge the mood before…

Macron has himself to thank for the rise of Jordan Bardella

3 July 2024 7:59 pm

The mood has taken a dark and intolerant turn in France since the National Rally’s (NR) victory in the first round…

Giorgia Meloni will enjoy taking revenge on Macron

2 July 2024 6:32 pm

The German government has expressed its ‘concern’ at the prospect of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally forming the next government…