Gavin Mortimer

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…

Macron has embarrassed and embittered his military

28 February 2024 8:08 pm

Emmanuel Macron is the first president of the Fifth Republic to have never served in the military, and it shows.…

Why is Macron acting like a ‘warlord’?

27 February 2024 10:10 pm

Emmanuel Macron has said that the West may have to send ground troops to Ukraine to support their war against…

France expels Islamists while Britain appeases them

26 February 2024 8:30 pm

France last week deported an imam after footage emerged of him appearing to preach hate. Mahjoub Mahjoubi, who has lived in France since…

Europe’s elitist politicians have lost touch with the working classes

23 February 2024 8:03 pm

What links Rishi Sunak to Elly Schlein, the leader of the Italian left, and Raphaël Glucksmann, the great hope of…

Macron’s latest adversary might be his most dangerous yet

21 February 2024 5:00 pm

It’s been a terrible start to the year for Emmanuel Macron and his new government. Aside from the well-publicised farmers’…

It’s stalemate in Ukraine but Putin is defeating the West in Africa

20 February 2024 4:30 pm

In the early hours of Saturday morning, police in Paris shot dead a Sudanese man who had threatened them with…

France’s anti-democratic streak

17 February 2024 5:00 pm

For the past week the airwaves in France have eulogised Robert Badinter, a name unfamiliar to many outside the Republic.…

Will the Tories be wiped out like the French Republicans?

14 February 2024 7:58 pm

Vote for me or you’ll end up with Keir Starmer. That was the threat from Rishi Sunak on Monday evening…

Greta Thunberg

The sinister transformation of Greta Thunberg

12 February 2024 10:16 pm

Greta Thunberg spent her weekend in France supporting two environmental campaigns. On Sunday she appeared at a rally in Bordeaux…

The left can’t stand France’s new culture minister

10 February 2024 6:19 pm

France’s new minister of culture has promised to put an end to the creeping cancel culture that is threatening the…

Taylor Swift can’t save the EU

9 February 2024 8:42 pm

The EU hopes that Taylor Swift and other pop starlets will come to its rescue in June’s European elections. With…

Russia isn’t the biggest worry in Macron’s crime-ridden France

5 February 2024 9:19 pm

February has not started well for the European Union. On the first day of the month, furious farmers surrounded the…

France’s farmers will be back on Paris’s doorstep before long

2 February 2024 7:09 pm

In a week full of symbolism in France, the most striking image was the sight of armoured cars blocking the…

France’s furious farmers are marching on Paris

29 January 2024 7:43 pm

Paris will be under siege from 2 p.m. today as farmers intensify their protest action and attempt to cut off…

European voters are rebelling against the elites

26 January 2024 6:32 pm

A friend of mine intends to vote for the National Rally in June’s European Elections. That in itself is nothing…

Two weeks in, Gabriel Attal is already fighting fires

24 January 2024 7:29 pm

Gabriel Attal has only been in his job for two weeks but the youngest prime minister in the history of…

France’s protesting farmers have spooked Emmanuel Macron

22 January 2024 6:56 pm

The farmers of France are mobilising. Their anger will be an early test for Gabriel Attal; the countryside is unknown…