The shambolic and strange scenes that marred the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games are reaching far beyond a shocked Catholic Church, and despite what mainstream media would like you to think.
So bad was the ceremony, Gavin Mortimer writes for the Spectator – describing it as "more a French farce than an Olympic extravaganza" and "an interminable parade of wokery" – that it "achieved the remarkable feat of uniting” Jean-Luc Melenchon, the leader of the left-wing New Popular Front alliance that achieved a narrow victory in the 2024 French legislative elections, and Marion Marechal, the right-wing politician who is Marine Le Pen’s niece.
