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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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      Protestors march for 'Justice for Socayna', a woman who was killed in drug-related violence, in Marseille. AFP
      Marseille's murderous ganglands tarnish the once glorious French gateway to Maghreb

      Law student Amine Kessaci is fighting the cycle of revenge killing after losing his brother in the relentless round of feuding

      EuropeNovember 29, 2024
      PARIS, FRANCE - JULY 26: France's flag bearer Florent Manaudou (L) and France's flag bearer Melina Robert-Michon sail on France's delegation boat on the river Seine below the Eiffel Tower during the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 on July 26, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Franck Fife - Pool / Getty Images)
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      After the Olympics, France is facing an uncertain future
      OpinionAugust 13, 2024
      Olympics fans show their support for France at Marseille Marina. Getty Images
      Allez La France: Olympics unite nation as flowing medals add to holiday spirit

      At the halfway stage, French successes have captured public attention, leaving acrimony of opening ceremony a distant memory

      OlympicsAugust 02, 2024
      Marine Le Pen, French far-right leader and far-right Rassemblement National (National Rally - RN) party candidate, on stage after partial results in the first round of the early French parliamentary elections in Henin-Beaumont, France on June 30. Reuters
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      Macron's gamble has failed in spectacular fashion

      France’s lurch to the far right was on the cards. But the clear gains made by Marine Le Pen's party has still sent shock waves through the political establishment

      CommentJuly 01, 2024
      France has imposed a state of emergency and banned TikTok in New Caledonia. AP
      Why France accuses Azerbaijan of inciting riots in New Caledonia

      The French island territory is more than 13,000km from the Caucasus, and yet Paris alleges its politics are being shaped there

      CommentMay 17, 2024
      Protesters demand an urgent rethink of the Canary Islands' tourism model and freezing the number of tourists, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain. EPA
      What's the solution to over-tourism in Europe?

      Some European countries are charging tourists an entry fee, given the large visitor numbers. If the trend catches on, might this lead to increased tourism in the Gulf?

      CommentMay 01, 2024
      Memories of the community in the block where he grew up while military conflict reigned outside left an indelible mark on the young Habib Haddad's consciousness that was to inform his life's work. Photo: Habib Haddad
      Tech entrepreneur Habib Haddad's childhood lesson from war-torn Beirut

      Lebanese 'start-up activist' reveals how he came to realise the importance of community and why he always aims to be part of something bigger

      Arab ShowcaseApril 25, 2024
      French police arrest Algerian campaigners in Puteaux, west of Paris, on October 17, 1961. Estimates vary but some suggest up to 300 protesters were killed by police before, during and after a banned pro-independence demonstration. AFP
      Will France's attempts to recognise past wrongs survive?

      When French MPs recently voted to condemn the 1961 police killings of Algerian protesters, it irritated a far right whose anti-immigration narrative is becoming more mainstream

      CommentApril 09, 2024
      The Labour Party is on course for an emphatic return to power under Keir Starmer in this year's UK general election. Getty Images
      Can Keir Starmer save Europe's centre-left?

      With the continent's hard-right parties on the march, it is up to Britain's would-be prime minister to show that mainstream politics can deliver

      CommentFebruary 15, 2024
      France's President Emmanuel Macron (right) with Gabriel Attal, his fourth prime minister in seven years. AFP
      France's new Prime Minister needs to succeed in the court of public popularity

      Gabriel Attal faces a few formidable tasks, one of which is winning over disenchanted voters

      CommentJanuary 10, 2024
      A woman looks out of a bus that will take her and other migrants for processing, in Dungeness, England, in August. AFP
      The politics of divisiveness is on the rise in Europe

      Right-wing parties with anti-immigrant messaging are predicted to do well in this year's elections

      CommentJanuary 01, 2024
      Workers clean the debris of a burnt train, in Dublin, Ireland, on Friday. Getty Images
      The Dublin riot belies Ireland's long and rich history of migration

      And yet a disturbing anti-immigration sentiment has been bubbling for reasons that need addressing

      CommentNovember 28, 2023
      Former presidents Nicolas Sarkozy, fifth left, and Francois Hollande, ninth left, join other senior French figures to march behind a banner that reads 'For The Republic, Against anti-Semitism' during a demonstration in Paris on Sunday. AP
      Why Le Pen's party cannot shake its 'far-right' tag

      A weekend march in Paris against anti-Semitism attracted Marine Le Pen's National Rally but many remain wary of the movement's true intentions

      CommentNovember 14, 2023
      Police in London arrest members of the Just Stop Oil environmental protest group as they block traffic during a demonstration in Whitehall. Officers have wrongly arrested journalists covering Just Stop Oil's activities, a worrying reminder that well-meaning changes can be interpreted over-zealously. Getty
      The UK's tolerance of healthy dissent is under threat

      The government wants to extend the definition of extremism to any individual or group deemed to undermine British institutions and values

      CommentNovember 08, 2023
      French police officers block the road leading to a crime scene the day after a knife-wielding attacker stabbed to death a senior police officer and his female companion Monday evening in Magnanville, west of Paris, France,on June 14, 2016. AP Photo
      No justification for police violence in France and the UK

      Officers do a difficult, dangerous and necessary job but it is being made harder still by a few bad apples

      CommentOctober 03, 2023
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