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Gavin Mortimer

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High alert / ‘Low-cost’ jihadists are Europe’s new danger

High alert /					 													 						‘Low-cost’ jihadists are Europe’s new danger
yesterday 9

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‘Low-cost’ jihadists are Europe’s new danger

‘Low-cost’ jihadists are Europe’s new danger
yesterday 30

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Macron’s late-night address will infuriate Trump and Vance

Macron’s late-night address will infuriate Trump and Vance
thursday 20

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Is Macron a ‘danger for peace’ in Ukraine?

Is Macron a ‘danger for peace’ in Ukraine?
04.03.2025 10

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Going for woke / The Imperial War Museum’s betrayal of history

Going for woke /					 													 						The Imperial War Museum’s betrayal of history
03.03.2025 10

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Europe can’t silence its working class forever

Europe can’t silence its working class forever
26.02.2025 20

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Trump and Macron’s backslapping masks a rocky relationship

Trump and Macron’s backslapping masks a rocky relationship
25.02.2025 10

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France’s National Rally has lost its way

France’s National Rally has lost its way
24.02.2025 9

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Will Macron get tough on Algeria over the French knife attack?

Will Macron get tough on Algeria over the French knife attack?
23.02.2025 10

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Christoph Heusgen is just another arrogant boomer

Christoph Heusgen is just another arrogant boomer
21.02.2025 10

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The Nigerian drug mafia is heading for Britain

The Nigerian drug mafia is heading for Britain
20.02.2025 5

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Georgia Meloni is Europe’s one true success story

Georgia Meloni is Europe’s one true success story
18.02.2025 20

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War in Ukraine / Can Europe stand on its own two feet against Russia?

War in Ukraine /					 													 						Can Europe stand on its own two feet against Russia?
17.02.2025 8

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Special relationship / Europe should listen to America’s uncomfortable truths

Special relationship /					 													 						Europe should listen to America’s uncomfortable truths
17.02.2025 10

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JD Vance is right. Europe is in peril

JD Vance is right. Europe is in peril
15.02.2025 10

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How the judiciary fuel Europe’s migrant crisis

14.02.2025 10

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Why is Jean-Luc Melenchon talking about the ‘Great Replacement’ theory?

12.02.2025 9

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Is a ‘Trump tornado’ about to tear through Europe?

10.02.2025 10

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Macron needs to find his inner Trump

07.02.2025 20

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Why is Spain so anti-Trump?

04.02.2025 20

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Europe is feeling the strain of mass immigration

03.02.2025 10

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How many more knife attacks can France take?

02.02.2025 10

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No safe space / How many more knife attacks can France take?

01.02.2025 30

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Like the Louvre, Macron’s presidency is falling apart

29.01.2025 9

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Europe has no idea how to stop the spread of Islamism

27.01.2025 10

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History lesson / A British Puy du Fou will upset all the right people

26.01.2025 10

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Calin Georgescu has exposed the rotten European Union

23.01.2025 20

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Why we’ll probably learn nothing from the Southport murders

21.01.2025 7

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World / Is it too late to Make Europe Great Again?

20.01.2025 10

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How France’s Jimmy Savile also got away with his evil

19.01.2025 10

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Why has Trump invited Zemmour – and not Le Pen – to his inauguration?

16.01.2025 10

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Censorship / The plot to ban X in France

14.01.2025 10

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Spain is stoking Europe’s migrant crisis

13.01.2025 7

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World / France’s problem is Algeria – not Elon Musk

11.01.2025 9

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France’s problem is Algeria – not Elon Musk

11.01.2025 10

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When will Britain wake up to the Islamist threat?

10.01.2025 10

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Why do the left mock the dead?

It was party time in Paris and elsewhere in France on Tuesday evening as hundreds of people celebrated the death of Jean-Marie Le Pen. The...

08.01.2025 10

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There’s something hypocritical about Macron attacking Musk

Europe’s leaders rounded on Elon Musk on Monday as the American tech billionaire continued to air his views on the state of the Old Continent....

07.01.2025 10

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Ten years on and is France still ‘Je suis Charlie’?

Today marks ten years since two brothers walked into the office of Charlie Hebdo and shot dead most of the staff. It was punishment for the...

07.01.2025 8

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Why is Gisele Pelicot a hero but not the girls of Rochdale?

A poll in France has named Gisèle Pelicot as the country’s person of the year for the courage and dignity she displayed during the rape trial that...

06.01.2025 20

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Could Emmanuel Macron be Elon Musk’s next target?

Days before Christmas, the BBC published an article on its website headlined ‘Elon Musk’s curious fixation with Britain’. The broadcaster was...

03.01.2025 10

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Democracy is rotting in Europe

Last Friday, America announced sanctions against Bidzina Ivanishvili, a Georgian tycoon who made his fortune in Russia in the 1990s. Secretary of...

30.12.2024 30

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The problem with rugby union

Rugby union has always attracted a certain type, the ‘play hard, party hard’ sort. I remember a former teammate – a prop, perhaps not...

27.12.2024 6

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Is this Emmanuel Macron’s last Christmas as president?

Emmanuel Macron will deliver his traditional New Year’s Eve message to France next week, an event that one imagines is testing the skills of his...

23.12.2024 5

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Le Pen’s success this year is a warning to the Tories

Nigel Farage was in fine fettle when he appeared on GB News on Tuesday evening. He boasted of his weekend in Florida, chewing the fat with Elon...

20.12.2024 8

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Gisèle Pelicot has become a feminist hero

Justice was served on Dominique Pelicot today when an Avignon court found him guilty of raping his ex-wife, Gisèle, over a ten year period, and...

19.12.2024 10

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Macron has become a liability for the EU

It’s been a year to forget for Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz. The German Chancellor’s coalition collapsed last month and on Monday he lost a...

18.12.2024 7

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Macron is powerless against his enemies

So farewell Michel Barnier, the man who will now be best remembered not as the suave face of the EU in the Brexit negotiations, but as the most...

16.12.2024 5

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