Francis Beckett

Articles by Francis Beckett

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Society of the spectacle

  • 10 January 2008

London Stage in the 20th Century Robert Tanitch Haus Publishing, 312pp, £25

The sixth man

  • 18 October 2007

Was Paddy Costello a key member of the most notorious Soviet spy network of the 1950s - or was he framed?

Learning when to go from prime ministers past

  • 09 October 2006
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Some history lessons on leaving No 10

Managing chaos

  • 07 August 2006

Plundering the Public Sector: how new Labour are letting consultants run off with £70bn of our money David Craig, with Richard Brooks Constable & Robinson, 264pp, £9.99

Old school tie lives on

  • 19 June 2006

Observations on inequality

House party

  • 19 June 2006

Men Who Made Labour Edited by Alan Haworth and Dianne Hayter Routledge, 273pp, £30 ISBN 1845680472

The teachers who must have faith

  • 17 April 2006

Observations on education

Dirty deeds

  • 20 February 2006

Fightback! Labour's traditional right in the 1970s and 1980s Dianne Hayter Manchester University Press, 224pp, £14.99 ISBN 0719072719

NS Profile - Neil Kinnock

  • 13 February 2006

There is only one issue that could have forced the past Labour leader into rebellion, and that is education. Neil Kinnock profiled

Secrets and lies

  • 16 January 2006

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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