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Gavin Mortimer

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Bad sport / The slow death of Welsh rugby

Bad sport /					 													 						The slow death of Welsh rugby
19.07.2025 3

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The slow death of Welsh rugby

The slow death of Welsh rugby
19.07.2025 4

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Bayrou will regret his plan to scrap French bank holidays

Bayrou will regret his plan to scrap French bank holidays
16.07.2025 10

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France doesn’t need Boomers dreaming of political comebacks

France doesn’t need Boomers dreaming of political comebacks
12.07.2025 10

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Starmer and Macron won’t fix the Channel migrant crisis

Starmer and Macron won’t fix the Channel migrant crisis
10.07.2025 3

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Can Ursula von der Leyen survive ‘Pfizergate’?

Can Ursula von der Leyen survive ‘Pfizergate’?
10.07.2025 7

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Relying on Macron to tackle the migrant crisis is a fool’s errand

Relying on Macron to tackle the migrant crisis is a fool’s errand
09.07.2025 20

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Britain’s parliament doesn’t need to hear from Emmanuel Macron

Britain’s parliament doesn’t need to hear from Emmanuel Macron
08.07.2025 4

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Corbyn is following in the footsteps of the French left

04.07.2025 4

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Gueux / Meet France’s new anti-green movement

30.06.2025 10

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Starmer’s ‘one in, one out’ migrant plan will end in failure

27.06.2025 10

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Channel off / France won’t stop the small boats

18.06.2025 6

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The quiet desperation of Macron’s Greenland visit

16.06.2025 10

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Will the L.A. immigration riots reach Europe?

11.06.2025 10

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Britain must learn from France’s e-scooter mistake

09.06.2025 8

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France’s border patrol is playing a losing game

03.06.2025 5

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The real cause of French football hooliganism

02.06.2025 20

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Extremism / Europe’s far-left terror threat

28.05.2025 10

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Anti-establishment / Could France’s next president come from the Yellow Hats?

26.05.2025 10

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France is waking up to the threat of the Muslim Brotherhood

24.05.2025 9

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The EU’s power is waning. If only Starmer could see it

20.05.2025 50

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Could Bruno Retailleau become France’s next president?

19.05.2025 10

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‘Island of strangers’ / Britain is heading the way of France

14.05.2025 10

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The hypocrisy of Britain’s military elite

05.05.2025 10

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Is Dame Vera Lynn really a war hero?

03.05.2025 6

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The hypocrisy of Pakistan’s migrant expulsion plan

30.04.2025 6

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Europe / Macron has let an epidemic of violence grip France

28.04.2025 10

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What Pope Francis got wrong about illegal migration

25.04.2025 8

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What could France possibly teach America about free speech?

20.04.2025 10

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Meloni’s mission to ‘make the West great again’ will infuriate Macron

18.04.2025 10

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Britain and France are too scared to tackle the migrant crisis

17.04.2025 10

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Drug war / Is France too weak to stop the violent attacks on its prisons?

16.04.2025 10

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Europe’s annual migrant crisis is just getting started

15.04.2025 7

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How the kebab mafia took over the French high street

14.04.2025 10

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Why do the French hate J.D. Vance so much?

13.04.2025 40

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Will the EU crumble under Trump’s tariffs?

11.04.2025 4

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France / Marine le Pen is far from finished

07.04.2025 10

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How the French right can still win

05.04.2025 10

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Trump has finally ditched Macron for Marine Le Pen

04.04.2025 10

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How the French right can still win

03.04.2025 6

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France / Marine Le Pen’s downfall is a gift to the National Rally

31.03.2025 4

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Macron wants to be France’s protector-in-chief

20.03.2025 10

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Could a headscarf row bring down France’s government?

19.03.2025 20

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Emmanuel Macron has Trump déjà vu

17.03.2025 9

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Calin Georgescu is a victim of illiberal Europe

11.03.2025 10

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What Reform can learn from France’s National Rally

10.03.2025 9

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

08.03.2025 10

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