Colin Randall

A festival in France is celebrating and highlighting the Arabic language’s contribution to global knowledge, arts and culture, a major language that is being taught less than most of the others, and is wrongly viewed as dangerous by some.

Colin Randall takes a critical view of two reports on the lives of British Muslims – the Dame Louise Casey report and a Policy Exchange survey

In a damning survey of the state of community relations, the UK government-commissioned Casey Review highlighted a growth in “regressive” ideologies as well as disturbing levels of segregation, deprivation and social exclusion.

F1 is sport and the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix deserves a public vote of confidence, writes Colin Randall

Suriyah Bi was fired from her job at the Heartlands Academy last year after raising concerns about footage of people jumping to their deaths from the twin towers being shown to 11 and 12-year-olds with special needs. According to Ms Bi, the school said she took offence because she is Muslim – something she denies.

US election result is another step toward "the building of a new world", says Marine Le Pen, whose Front National party is ahead in French opinion polls.

It is one year since a series of terror attacks killed 130 innocent people in Paris but more atrocities would follow as the French government failed to resolve the tension between religious observance and a fiercely secular state.

Few striving for rapprochement quarrel with the Foundation for Islam in France’s aspirations but some question the choice of a non-Muslim as its first head.

As the man decried as a vulgar and dangerously unpredictable bully prepares to succeed Barack Obama, it remains to be seen whether he is now capable of bringing together a bitterly divided people, writes Colin Randall.

Colin Randall highlights the latest twists and turns in Brexit

Views are divided about the man who has become Lebanon’s new prime minister. Is he a leader for the people or is the ‘very kind, very nice’ billionaire just looking after his self-interests?

It may be appropriate for ageing reactionaries to accept as the fact that language inevitably evolves and assumes new habits, writes Colin Randall

Kim Kardashian’s jewellery robbery has added to trouble for the world’s most popular tourism destination, after devastating terrorist attacks.

Whether the Kim Kardashian robbery was an inside job or a golden opportunity, her compulsion to tell the world about her wealth was bound to catch up with her, Foreign Correspondent Colin Randall reports.

Drawing from real-life cases, a new film in France explains the extremist group’s success in attracting teenagers from professional families to join them, Colin Randall, Foreign Correspondent, reports