Colin Randall

It is a popular, cowardly tool of terror, promising heavy fatalities and a hit to economies of nations that rely on tourists. But history shows this week’s attack in Bangkok and recent atrocities in Tunisia does not mean people will stay away.

The new chief executive of Google, announced this week as part of the conglomerate’s restructuring, has enjoyed a meteoric rise from humble beginnings in south-east India.

In a country that has liberty, equality and fraternity as its national motto, a banner that denounces “social apartheid” should do more than prick the collective conscience – it should sting like a scorpion.

Listening to the words of those fleeing war and persecution for a new life in Europe is instructive, writes Colin Randall

With multimillion-pound backing from the Doha’s sovereign wealth fund, one of the UK’s biggest horse racing events has been lifted to greater heights. The going is certainly good for Glorious Goodwood.

Does grammatical elegance really matter, if the objective of communication is just to be understood, wonders Colin Randall

Billed as the ‘greatest free show on the planet’, the Tour de France begins this weekend in the Dutch city of Utrecht, and will draw vast crowds wherever it goes – along with spectacular revenue.

The European Commission president is a decidedly odd mixture: old Europe in outlook, informal in approach but with a disarming way of telling the truth about why politicians lie.

Colin Randall on why the gender-neutral phrase 'you guys' should not be added to the Oxford English Dictionary.

At least 37 people, mostly European tourists, confirmed dead after gun rampage at Tunisian beach resort, while in France a man was beheaded before an attempt to blow up a gas factory.

The husbands of two women, who took their nine children to Syria, blame the UK government and police response to radicalisation.

Orders placed and commitments made in the trade-dominated early stages of the seven-day event amounted to US$107.2 billion of new business for Airbus and Boeing.

Mohed Altrad became the World Entrepreneur of the Year for 2015 despite his humble origins.

Colin Randall looks at the curious world of footballspeak