Gavin Mortimer

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…

France’s political upheaval is bad news for Ukraine

1 July 2024 7:19 pm

It has been a bad few days for Volodymyr Zelensky. The president of Ukraine must have covered his face with…

Marine Le Pen’s National Rally is on course to take power

1 July 2024 6:41 am

Emmanuel Macron suffered the biggest humiliation of his presidency on Sunday evening as his Renaissance party was beaten into third…

Will Marine Le Pen finish what her father started?

30 June 2024 5:52 pm

France votes today. If the opinion polls are correct Marine Le Pen’s National Rally will be the big winner in…

France’s ‘Somewheres’ want revenge

29 June 2024 9:00 am

The builder who has been working on my house in Burgundy will be voting for Marine Le Pen’s National Rally…

Meloni is furious at the EU’s centrist stitch-up

29 June 2024 1:58 am

The European Union has reached an agreement on the bloc’s political leadership for the next five years – and in the…

The shooting of Nahel Merzouk still haunts France

27 June 2024 8:07 pm

One year ago today, a 17-year-old called Nahel Merzouk was fatally shot by a policeman as he sped away from…

Will the French Blob thwart Marine Le Pen?

27 June 2024 4:00 pm

The National Rally presented its manifesto to the French people on Monday ahead of Sunday’s first round of voting in…

French football is suffering from election fever

26 June 2024 8:40 pm

If England’s excuse for their inept performances is Gareth Southgate, what explains France’s failure to come to life at this…

Is Jean-Luc Melenchon the most dangerous man in France?

23 June 2024 4:00 pm

The figurehead of the far left and the man who dreams of becoming Prime Minister of France declared this week:…

France under Macron keeps getting worse

22 June 2024 12:49 am

The warnings continue to come thick and fast in France about the disaster that could befall the Republic on 7…

France’s left-wing coalition would unleash migrant chaos on Britain

19 June 2024 6:41 pm

Emmanuel Macron has described the left-wing coalition’s manifesto as ‘totally immigrationist’. The Popular Front, which brings together Communists, Greens, Socialists…

Kylian Mbappé’s veiled Le Pen warning won’t save Macron

18 June 2024 8:57 pm

France’s prime minister was out and about on Monday mixing with the proles south of Paris. ‘I’m going to shake…

Why the French left hate Macron as much as Le Pen

17 June 2024 6:13 pm

Over a quarter of a million people marched through France on Saturday and I was among their ranks as an…

A left-wing government would spell tragedy for France

14 June 2024 6:48 pm

It has been the craziest week in French politics for decades but for the Republic’s police it’s business as usual.…