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Gavin Mortimer

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Why is Spain so anti-Trump?

Why is Spain so anti-Trump?
yesterday 20

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Europe is feeling the strain of mass immigration

Europe is feeling the strain of mass immigration
previous day 10

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How many more knife attacks can France take?

How many more knife attacks can France take?
sunday 10

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

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

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

Europe has no idea how to stop the spread of Islamism
27.01.2025 9

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

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

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 3

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

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

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?

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

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 2

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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 3

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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 6

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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 4

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How long will Macron’s latest prime minister last?

Emmanuel Macron has appointed the veteran centrist Francois Bayrou as his fourth prime minister of the year. First elected as an MP in 1986, Bayrou...

13.12.2024 6

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Macron governs only for himself

Emmanuel Macron will this afternoon host the leaders of France’s political parties as he searches for his fourth prime minister of the year. The...

10.12.2024 5

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Emmanuel Macron is about to be humiliated – again

Emmanuel Macron addressed the French people on Thursday night and once again ruled out the possibility he will resign before his mandate expires in...

06.12.2024 3

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Macron’s France is no longer fit for purpose

Emmanuel Macron will address the French people this evening, 24 hours after parliament passed a vote of no confidence in the president’s...

05.12.2024 10

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Michel Barnier’s government has fallen

France was plunged into another political crisis on Wednesday evening when the government of Michel Barnier lost a vote of no confidence. 332 MPs...

04.12.2024 2

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Blame the EU for what’s happening to France

Michel Barnier’s government is likely to be toast by teatime when a vote of no confidence is tabled in France’s National Assembly. Votes will be...

04.12.2024 8

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Is this the end for Barnier – and Macron?

Emmanuel Macron arrived in Saudi Arabia on Monday for trade talks with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Having signed a strategic partnership deal...

03.12.2024 5

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Is Marine Le Pen ready to bring down Macron?

There is a deadline today in France. It was set by Marine Le Pen last week for Michel Barnier. Show me you’re serious about respecting me and my...

02.12.2024 10

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France is still fighting the tyranny of Islamophobia

It is almost ten years since I and two million Parisians walked through the French capital on a cold Sunday in January 2015. On our minds were the...

29.11.2024 3

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The strange sanctification of Angela Merkel

When the history of the twentieth century is written, one of the questions that will puzzle historians is the sanctification of Angela Merkel,...

26.11.2024 7

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Immigration / Don’t expect an end to Europe’s migrant crisis any time soon

Nearly a year ago the EU unveiled what it called its ‘New Pact on Migration and Asylum’ with much fanfare. The Commission president, Ursula von der...

26.11.2024 4

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Why Jaguar’s rebrand is doomed

Jaguar’s disastrous makeover has left many people wondering if it isn’t April Fool’s Day. It’s not, of course. After 89 years of success with pale,...

22.11.2024 3

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Banning Marine Le Pen from politics would be a grave mistake

Paris prosecutors last week recommended that Marine Le Pen be jailed and banned from public office for five years. The court also wants similar...

19.11.2024 20

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New world order / Donald Trump’s style of politics originated in Europe

A headline in a recent Washington Post op-ed declared that: ‘The Trump contagion is already in Europe – and it’s spreading’. The Post‘s European...

17.11.2024 4

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Will Jewish football fans dare come to Paris tonight?

France play Israel this evening in an international football match in Paris. The venue is the Stade de France although the French sports daily, L’...

14.11.2024 5

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Ursula von der Leyen is Europe’s Kamala Harris

European farmers have called for a day of protest in Brussels on Wednesday, 48 hours before the EU is expected to sign the Mercosur trade deal. The...

12.11.2024 3

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Jewish football fans are not safe in Europe

Israeli football fans were attacked in Amsterdam on Thursday evening and three supporters are listed as missing this morning. It is reported that...

08.11.2024 3

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What Marine Le Pen can learn from Donald Trump

The reaction of Marine Le Pen and her party to the stunning triumph of Donald Trump was curiously flat. Emmanuel Macron tweeted his congratulations...

07.11.2024 2

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America / Donald Trump is Ursula von der Leyen’s worst nightmare

The first European leader to tweet their response to Donald Trump’s victory was Emmanuel Macron of France, pipping Giorgia Meloni to the prize by a...

06.11.2024 6

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Crime / France’s drugs war is spiralling out of control

Even by the bloody standards of what France has become under Emmanuel Macron, the carnage last week was horrific. In Poitiers, a shootout left five...

05.11.2024 5

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It’s rich of the French to call Trump ‘vulgar’

There has always been a touch of snobbery in the way the French elite regard American politics. The word one reads and hears most often in the...

03.11.2024 9

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