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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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Radical associations to be disbanded in overhaul of French Islam

French president Emmanuel Macron announced a flavour of his plans on Monday.

EuropeOctober 28, 2019
Colin Randall
Boris Johnson's handling of the UK's departure from the EU has left British politics in a tumultuous state. EPA
For those of us with lives in two countries, Brexit is a bureaucratic minefield

I am British and my wife is French – so what happens to the hundreds of thousands like us when freedom of movement suddenly stops?

CommentOctober 18, 2019
Colin Randall
A court sketch made on September 23, 2019 shows, from left, Ines Madani, Ornella Gilligmann and Sarah Hervouet at their trial. AFP
Notre-Dame bomb plot: sentencing of female terror cell expected this week

French trial reveals how four women were convinced to inflict more carnage on Paris

EuropeOctober 12, 2019
Colin Randall
Former French president Jacques Chirac died aged 86 last Thursday. EPA
Jacques Chirac: a flawed giant of French politics

Combative and charismatic, the politician who died last Thursday was a statesman of many contradictions

CommentSeptember 28, 2019
Colin Randall
French President Emmanuel Macron's rise to power and policies are the subjects of a course introduced by the Sciences Po university. via AP
Top French university criticised over course on Emmanuel Macron

Sciences Po says seminars explore 'phenomenon' of French president's meteoric rise to power

EuropeSeptember 12, 2019
Colin Randall
The organisation was launched in January by prominent intellectual Hakim El Karoui. AFP
French Muslim association to forge ahead with imam training plans despite Macron reticence

Hakim El Karoui’s association plans to raise cash from taxes on halal products and Hajj trips

EuropeAugust 14, 2019
Colin Randall
Boris Johnson poses for selfies with supporters during the Conservative leadership race earlier this month. Dylan Martinez / Pool via Bloomberg
Profile: determination kept Boris on track for Downing Street

Setbacks galore have not impeded his rise to the top of the greasy pole of British politics

BrexitJuly 23, 2019
Colin Randall
Police officers examine the area outside the Pontanezen Sunna mosque in Brest, western France where the imam and another man were shot on June 27, 2019. AFP
Mystery surrounds shooting of imam in France

Suspected assailant, found dead after non-fatal attack, had claimed masked men ordered him to do it

EuropeJune 29, 2019
Colin Randall
A man wearing face paint in a European Union flag design follows the results of the European Parliament elections in Brussels on May 26, 2019. Geert Vanden Wijngaert / Bloomberg
Voters put a new face on European parliament

Dominance of centrist parties is broken as liberals, Greens and far right make gains

EuropeMay 27, 2019
Colin Randall
French gendarmes run through smoke of tear gas during a May Day demonstration in Paris. AFP
Police suicides rising in France as yellow vest protests drag on

The government has launched a hotline to offer more assistance

EuropeMay 04, 2019
Colin Randall
Scholar Tariq Ramadan has admitted to sexual relations with the two women but said they were consensual. AP.
Tariq Ramadan looms over French Muslim meeting

The Swiss academic accused of rape continues to hold ideological sway over some attending the Muslims of France group meeting despite efforts by organisers to distance themselves from him

WorldApril 24, 2019
Colin Randall
Firefighters trying to put out a fire burning the roof of the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. Benoit Moser / EPA
Notre-Dame has managed to do what Emmanuel Macron couldn't and unite France

It could take at least 40 years to restore the cathedral to its former glory

CommentApril 16, 2019
Colin Randall
France's Emmanuel Macron greets UK leader Theresa May. Reuters
France growing tired of Brexit chaos after second delay is agreed

The prospect of another six months of uncertainty is worrying businesses on both sides of the Channel

BrexitApril 11, 2019
Colin Randall
Protesters face riot police in Marseille during a 10th consecutive Saturday of Yellow Vests demonstrations. Christophe Simon / AFP
As France's protests rage on, Macron has shown himself to be woefully out of touch

As the principal target of protesters now demanding his resignation, the president now acknowledges his policies have inflicted pain and aroused discontent

CommentJanuary 21, 2019
Colin Randall
A video grab made on January 7, 2019 shows former boxer Christophe Dettinger broacasting a message of apology for punching police officers. AFP
France's yellow vest boxer sparks controversy and praise

He has been filmed pummelling one gendarme with his fists and kicking another as he lay on the ground.

EuropeJanuary 08, 2019
Colin Randall
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