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Gavin Mortimer

France’s dilemma: what to do with jihadists who say sorry

Gavin Mortimer 9 February 2019 9:00 am

Patrick Jardin lost his daughter when Islamist terrorists attacked the Bataclan in November 2015. Nathalie was one of 130 people…

Is France on the verge of class war between Yellow Vests and Red Scarves?

Gavin Mortimer 2 February 2019 9:00 am

The first thing that struck me when I emerged from the metro station onto the Place de la Nation was…

The strange love-in between Michel Houellebecq and Emmanuel Macron

Gavin Mortimer 12 January 2019 9:00 am

Houellebecq’s new novel predicted the unrest in France

The gilets jaunes have become a symbol of resistance worn with pride by the downtrodden

Gavin Mortimer 8 December 2018 9:00 am

A progressive President has pushed his people too far

Is Emmanuel Macron having a meltdown?

Gavin Mortimer 10 November 2018 9:00 am

Emmanuel Macron is becoming isolated in both France and the EU

Why French kids don’t get fat – and British ones do

Gavin Mortimer 20 October 2018 9:00 am

Why are French kids thin and British ones fat?

France is fracturing but Macron remains in denial

Gavin Mortimer 20 October 2018 9:00 am

As chalices go, few are as poisoned as the one Emmanuel Macron has just handed Christophe Castaner. Minister of the…

What happened to Je Suis Charlie, Prime Minister?

Gavin Mortimer 18 August 2018 9:00 am

On January 11 2015, I was one of two million people who marched slowly and silently through Paris to honour…

Football, not rugby, is now the gentleman’s game

Gavin Mortimer 7 July 2018 9:00 am

Rugby used to be civilised – but no longer. Now it’s footballers who know how to behave

Emmanuel Macron’s challenge for French lesbians

Gavin Mortimer 9 June 2018 9:00 am

The man who brought France’s Socialist Party to the brink of ruin has no sense of shame. In recent weeks,…

Macron's Thatcher moment has arrived

Gavin Mortimer 7 April 2018 9:00 am

The French President is facing his ‘Thatcher moment’

The golden girl of the French right

Gavin Mortimer 24 February 2018 9:00 am

The news that Marion Maréchal-Le Pen will share a stage this week with US conservatives, addressing the annual Conservative Political…

Is Macron’s vanity presidency already falling apart?

Gavin Mortimer 29 July 2017 9:00 am

The French president’s embarrassing attempts to reinvent himself as the new Tony Blair

Who dares lies: why do so many men pretend to have been in the SAS?

Gavin Mortimer 18 July 2015 9:00 am

Why do so many men (including Sir Christopher Lee) fib about serving with the SAS?

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