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Colin Randall

Colin Randall

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Colin Randall began his career on newspapers in northern England before joining the Press Association and then the Daily Telegraph, where he worked as reporter, chief reporter, executive news editor and Paris bureau chief. He was The National’s executive editor for its 2008 launch and has written regularly for this newspaper and others since returning to Europe in 2009. He has Anglo-French nationality and specialises in French politics.
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Leading prayers at the Notre-Dame de la Garde basilica will be the centrepiece of Pope Francis's visit to Marseille. AFP
Pope set for Marseille visit 500 years in the making

Papal trip to France comes as Europe faces turbulent political and religious times

UKSeptember 20, 2023
Colin Randall
Socayna died in hospital on Tuesday morning after being found in a 'river of blood' by her mother
France torn apart by death of woman from gangster's stray bullet

'Here in Marseille, it’s war. I blame the state, too,' says law student's mother

EuropeSeptember 14, 2023
Colin Randall
A collection point for earthquake victims at the Stade Bollaert-Delelis in Lens, northern France, ahead of a football match between Morocco and Burkina Faso. AFP
France urged to use 'earthquake diplomacy' in Morocco rift

North African diaspora rises to challenge in contrast to French government's troublesome official response

EuropeSeptember 14, 2023
Colin Randall
A tourist takes photographs of the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, July 3, 2022. Reuters
When summer holidays are more ordeal than escape

The heat in Europe – along with excessive tourism, service strikes, rising costs and wildfires – added in some cases to less than perfect experiences of being on vacation

CommentAugust 29, 2023
Colin Randall
A man cools off at a public fountain in Colmar, eastern France, on August 21. AFP
French advised to take siestas as temperatures soar

Heat dome blights southern villages as wildfires threaten to cause losses

UKAugust 22, 2023
Colin Randall
French President Emmanuel Macron attends a welcome ceremony with traditional dancers and warriors at the local Senate in Noumea last month. AFP
Macron's tricky balancing act in France's most far-flung outpost

Amid great-power competition in the South-Pacific, pressure for independence in New Caledonia is arousing concern in Paris

CommentAugust 02, 2023
Colin Randall
French riot police pictured during a fifth day of unrest following the death of a teenager killed by a police officer in Nanterre during a traffic stop last week. Reuters
French rioters undermine valid calls for justice

As mobs target schools, creches and cultural centres, they steal attention from the need for clarity over 17-year-old Nahel M's death and a radical overhaul of policing

CommentJuly 02, 2023
Colin Randall
A woman leaves a voting station in Ngor, Dakar, on July 31, 2022. Senegalese voters head to the polls for parliamentary elections that the opposition hopes will force a coalition with President Macky Sall. AFP
Senegal has a lot to lose if it no longer remains one of Africa's most stable countries

Recently the country has had to deal with escalating unrest due to a jail sentence for the leader of a national politcal party

CommentJune 15, 2023
Colin Randall
French riot police look towards a burning barricade amid clashes with protesters during a demonstration on May Day. AFP
France is coursing with waves of violence right now, but its beauty will outlast them

Extremism, both on the right and the left, is currently manifesting itself in very ugly and violent ways

CommentMay 25, 2023
Colin Randall
People react during the demolition of an informal settlement in Langoni, Mamoudzou, on the island of Mayotte in April. AFP
The crisis in Mayotte is a sobering example of France's colonial legacy

An African archipelago is facing troubles at a time of growing unrest in far-flung outposts of the former empire

CommentMay 08, 2023
Colin Randall
Sunderland goalkeeper Jim Montgomery makes his spectacular double save, this one from the feet of Peter Lorimer after he had already saved Trevor Cherry's close range diving header, during the 1973 FA Cup final. Getty Images
50 years on: Sunderland FA Cup hero 'Monty' on Leeds giant-killing

Goalkeeper pulled off a string of brilliant saves in 1973 in one of greatest finals of all time

FootballMay 05, 2023
Colin Randall
Protesters carry cardboard replicas of coffins during a march to pay tribute to victims of killings that remain unsolved or unpunished, in Marseille on June 15, 2022. AFP
How Marseille's public face masks an ugly reality

The French city is a beautiful, historic place but is plagued by drugs and a stream of gangland killings

CommentApril 12, 2023
Colin Randall
Youths kick tear gas grenades during a demonstration in Nantes, western France. AP
Why France's youth are so set against pension changes

Violent clashes with police follow President Macron's controversial overhaul

UKMarch 28, 2023
Colin Randall
French President Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Friday. AP Photo
Strong headwinds even as Sunak and Macron revive UK-France relations

Cross-Channel tensions could return, fuelled by competing philosophies on humanitarian issues

CommentMarch 13, 2023
Colin Randall
Shamima Begum wants to return to Britain after fleeing to Syria to marry an ISIS fighter when she was 15. EPA
The place to try Shamima Begum is not the court of public opinion

Many minds were firmly made up early in the story of the London teenager who made her way to ISIS in Syria

OpinionFebruary 26, 2023
Colin Randall
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