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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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      French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak meet in Sharm El Sheikh in November. Getty Images
      How Macron and Sunak could end the cross-Channel hostility

      Mending Anglo-French relations seems a matter of priority, even as both leaders are facing intense domestic pressures

      CommentJanuary 26, 2023
      France's forward Kylian Mbappe is consoled by French President Emmanuel Macron after the World Cup final in Lusail on Sunday. AFP
      How Macron's warm embrace of Mbappe sums up 2022 for France

      It's been a bittersweet year for the country, whose post-pandemic recovery was undermined by crises both domestic and foreign

      CommentDecember 21, 2022
      Striking Royal Mail workers attend a rally outside the Houses of Parliament in London last week. Bloomberg
      Camera11
      London's attempts to politicise the strikes are unlikely to end well

      Voters across the UK are struggling to make ends meet. The least the government can do is treat them with respect

      CommentDecember 15, 2022
      (COMBO) This combination of file pictures created on December 5, 2022 shows England's forward #09 Harry Kane running with the ball during the Qatar 2022 World Cup Group B football match between Wales and England at the Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium in Al-Rayyan, west of Doha on November 29, 2022 and France's forward #10 Kylian Mbappe running with the ball during the Qatar 2022 World Cup Group D football match between France and Australia at the Al-Janoub Stadium in Al-Wakrah, south of Doha on November 22, 2022. - England take on France on December 10, 2022 in the last of the World Cup quarter-finals. (Photo by ANDREJ ISAKOVIC and FRANCK FIFE / AFP)
      Diversity rules in England and France World Cup quarter-final

      Centuries-old rivalry resurfaces for historic game between France's 'King Kylian' and England's 'Prince Harry'

      World CupDecember 10, 2022
      Keir Starmer has told his supporters it is time to accept the realities of Brexit. PA
      Keir Starmer, Brexiteer

      The UK opposition leader's latest strategy is to outflank the Conservatives on the right when it comes to Brexit

      CommentDecember 04, 2022
      British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak meets French President Emmanuel Macron at Cop27 in Sharm El Sheikh last week. Getty Images
      Can Sunak and Macron reset UK-France relations?

      The British prime minister has much bigger fish to fry, but reviving cross-Channel ties is important

      CommentNovember 14, 2022
      French founder of the Front national (FN) far-right party Jean-Marie Le Pen poses at his home in Rueil-Malmaison, west of Paris, on February 2. AFP
      Jean-Marie Le Pen's legacy: Europe's changing political landscape

      Politicians cast in his image grow in influence even as he is shunned by the party he founded 50 years ago

      CommentOctober 05, 2022
      Marine Le Pen waves during French far-right party National Rally interparliamentary days at the Cap d'Agde convention centre, southern France. AFP
      Marine Le Pen faces an awkward golden jubilee

      French far-right party faces dilemma over recognising milestone as it tries to shed past controversies

      EuropeOctober 03, 2022
      People gather around a makeshift memorial to pay tribute to the victims of the attack in Nice. AFP
      France is beginning one of its most important terror trials

      Six years after an attack that killed 86 people in the southern city of Nice, there is a chance to bring accomplices to justice

      OpinionSeptember 04, 2022
      Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune welcomes French President Emmanuel Macron in Algiers on Saturday. EPA
      Macron's vast delegation to Algeria is about history, not just diplomacy

      As well as to discuss issues such as natural gas and migration, the French president is confronting a taboo and controversial imperial past

      CommentAugust 30, 2022
      An aerial view shows boats moored in front of Ballistra beach in the Sant'Amanza bay in Bonifacio on August 16, 2022 on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica. - A new anchoring system is set up in the Sant-Amanza bay to preserve the herbaria from posidonia seagrass. (Photo by PASCAL POCHARD-CASABIANCA / AFP)
      In hot water: why we should be worried about a warming Mediterranean

      With the rising mercury come violent storms and the creation of undersea wastelands

      WeekendAugust 26, 2022
      Charles Peguy, the late French writer and poet, inspired the likes of former president Charles de Gaulle. Getty Images
      A pillar of Anglo-French ties has become yet another casualty of Brexit

      The recent closure of the Charles Peguy centre is sad but hardly surprising

      CommentJuly 29, 2022
      Emilie Konig at Al Roj camp in Syria, where suspected members of the ISIS group have been held. AFP
      After her time with ISIS, French prisoner seeks rehabilitation

      Meeting Emilie Konig reveals a young woman alienated from the society of her homeland

      EuropeJuly 10, 2022
      French President Emmanuel Macron during a tech conference in Paris on Friday. Bloomberg
      Is the 'Macron adventure' truly over?

      The parliamentary election proves the French President has lost the public trust. His party needs nothing less than a renaissance

      CommentJune 20, 2022
      In Strasbourg, eastern France, a supporter of hard-left leader Jean-Luc Melenchon pastes an electoral poster ahead of the second round of the legislative elections. AP
      Macron battling to avoid hung parliament

      Divided France heads into second round of parliamentary voting on Sunday

      EuropeJune 18, 2022
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