Gavin Mortimer

3 weeks ago | spectator.com.au | Gavin Mortimer

In a 24-hour period at the weekend, 184 migrants were rescued in the English Channel by the French coastguard. The most southerly group that got into trouble was picked up off Fort-Mahon in the Somme Department, and the most northerly were off Dunkirk, more than 80 miles up the coast.

3 weeks ago | spectator.co.uk | Gavin Mortimer

In a 24-hour period at the weekend, 184 migrants were rescued in the English Channel by the French coastguard. The most southerly group that got into trouble was picked up off Fort-Mahon in the Somme Department, and the most northerly were off Dunkirk, more than 80 miles up the coast. The coastguard was also called to incidents in Wimereux and Grand-Fort-Philippe. In other words, it is not just England that is being invaded.

3 weeks ago | spectator.com.au | Gavin Mortimer

Soon after Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) thrashed Inter Milan five-nil to win the Champions League, Ousmane Dembélé urged fans not to go wild. ‘Let’s celebrate but without breaking everything in Paris,’ said the PSG striker. His plea fell on deaf ears. Two have died, shops were looted, bus stops vandalised, cars torched and police attacked as Paris succumbed to an orgy of violence.

3 weeks ago | spectator.co.uk | Gavin Mortimer

Soon after Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) thrashed Inter Milan five-nil to win the Champions League, Ousmane Dembélé urged fans not to go wild. ‘Let’s celebrate but without breaking everything in Paris,’ said the PSG striker. His plea fell on deaf ears. Two have died, shops were looted, bus stops vandalised, cars torched and police attacked as Paris succumbed to an orgy of violence.

1 month ago | rugbypass.com | Gavin Mortimer

The French don’t get Henry Pollock. As someone who has lived in France for years, and is married to a Frenchwoman, I acknowledge that a sense of humour is very much part of the French character. But what they don’t have is the British tongue-in-cheek variety. Self-deprecation is not their forte. You would never have a French player dressing up as Ruprecht! – as Neil Jenkins gloriously did during the 1997 Lions tour – or mocking himself in a pizza advert à la Tony Underwood.