He was assistant editor of The Observer until 1998, when he joined The Independent on Sunday and worked there until retiring in 2013.
While at Cambridge, he was recruited to write for the student newspaper Varsity by editor Jeremy Paxman and wrote a weekly column titled "The Adventures of Druisilla Nutt-Tingler".
[2] After a brief period as a professional comedian and a brand manager at a cosmetics company, Randall joined the Croydon Advertiser as a trainee reporter in 1974 and became the paper's editor in 1980.
[7] Among the reporters included were Edna Buchanan,[8] William Howard Russell, Hugh McIlvanney, Ann Leslie, and A. J.
[9] 2019, "Suburbia (A Far From Ordinary Place)", his personal recollections of growing up in the 1950s and 1960s in Worcester Park and a warm and humorous broader look at life in the suburbs at that time.