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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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Women exercise in Dubai Sports City in Dubai. Getting fit is one the most popular of all New Year's resolutions (Photo by: Sarah Dea/The National)
Wouldn't it be best if we didn't make resolutions?

Colin Randall on the words we use to lie to ourselves

OpinionDecember 26, 2015
Year in review 2015: Lessons to be learnt from France’s tragic year
Year in review 2015: Lessons to be learnt from France’s tragic year
WorldDecember 26, 2015
Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected ringleder of the Paris attacks that killed 130 people on November 13, 2015. AFP handout
From Belgium to Austria to Switzerland, hunt for suspects with links to Paris attack continues

Investigations and arrests continue in Europe as authorities hunt down suspected accomplices in the Paris attack that killed 130 people on November 13.

WorldDecember 17, 2015
A police officer and soldiers on security duty inside Galerie de la Reine following the terror alert level being elevated to 4/4, in Brussels, Belgium, on November 22, 2015. Stephanie Lecocq/EPA
Belgium’s Molenbeek trapped in vicious circle of extremism and repression

In the area of Brussels where several of the Paris attackers grew up, the often heavy-handed official response to radicalisation is helping to fuel division further, writes Colin Randall.

WorldDecember 17, 2015
The long read: inside the Calais migrant cling to hope
The long read: inside the Calais migrant cling to hope
December 03, 2015
A French flag hangs from a window of a restaurant decorated for Christmas holiday season in Strasbourg, France. Vincent Kessler / Reuters
Cartoons play a role in explaining terror to children

Colin Randall writes how cartoons in children's newspapers are helping French schoolchildren understand the terror events in Paris

OpinionNovember 28, 2015
An undated photograph purporting to be of Abdelhamid Abaaoud that was published in ISIL's online magazine Dabiq and posted on a social media website. Social media website via Reuters
Paris attacks mastermind confirmed dead

Police sources said Moroccan intelligence had helped put French investigators on the trail of the Belgian-Moroccan militant.

WorldNovember 20, 2015
A second body is removed from the apartment raided by French police special forces in the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis on November 18, 2015. Eric Feferberg/AFP Photo
Two terror suspects killed in 7-hour police operation in Paris

Eight people were also arrested during the police raid, launched before dawn at a flat in a quiet working-class district of Saint-Denis, three kilometres from the Stade de France, one of the locations attacked on Friday.

WorldNovember 19, 2015
A stadium in Hannover where an international football match between Germany and Holland was to be played was evacuated at short notice yesterday, and the match cancelled. Julian Stratenschulte / EPA
German stadium evacuated in terror attack scare

Investigators in France and Germany carried out more raids and arrests on Tuesday in the hunt for those involved in the Paris attacks.

WorldNovember 18, 2015
Belgian special forces climb an apartment block in the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek during a raid on November 16, 2015, in search suspects linked to the deadly attacks in Paris. Yves Herman / Reuters
Belgian mastermind behind deadly Paris attacks

Abdelhamid Abaaoud's ISIL links emerged after Charlie Hebdo attacks in January.

WorldNovember 17, 2015
French soldiers guard the Sacre-Coeur cathedral in Paris on November 15, 2015. David Ramos / Getty Images
Manhunt for Paris attacker who got away

Fugitive Abdeslam Salah is one of three brothers from Belgium who carried out shootings and bombings that killed 132.

WorldNovember 16, 2015
Rescue service personnel tend to the injured next to covered bodies outside a Paris restaurant attacked by gunmen on November 13, 2015. Philippe Wojazer / Reuters
Deadly Paris attacks may be just the beginning

Security of officials say ISIL is likely to be planning more mass casualty attacks like the ones that killed 129 and wounded more than 350 on Friday.

WorldNovember 15, 2015
A candle burns in front of a Marianne with a tear during a vigil in Aotea Square, Auckland, New Zealand, on Novemebr 14, 2015, to remember the victims of the Paris attacks. Hannah Peters/Getty Images
Paris terror attacks are the shocking product of a constant threat

Extremists have little difficulty in finding grievances, historic or current, to justify carnage against innocent and usually easy targets, writes Colin Randall.

WorldNovember 14, 2015
ISIL affiliates claimed to have caused the St Petersburg-bound plane to crash in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, calling it retaliation for Russian airstrikes in Syria. AP Photo
Those who take credit for acts of terror

Extremist groups often jump at the chance to own up to terrorist incidents in the propaganda game against their enemies, but few of those claims can be substantiated by evidence, rendering such strategies futile in the long run.

WorldNovember 10, 2015
British prime minister David Cameron, left, with Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El Sisi in Downing Street on Thursday. Adrian Dennis / AFP
Egypt plane crash clouds Sisi’s London talks

Before and after his meeting with the Egyptian president, the British prime minister said it was “more likely than not” that a bomb caused Sunday’s disaster in the Sinai.

WorldNovember 06, 2015
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