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

Tiananmen Square

20 years on

Desperately seeking democracy

Nina Power

Newspeak's legacy

Bamboozle, baffle and blindside

Television

Simon Schama

Simplistic Simon says: “Look at me, everyone!”

Theatre

Liberal guilt

Watch out for the bleeding-heart liberal

Vernon Bogdanor

Worse than Profumo

End of the party

Nicky Wire

The way I see it

Nicky Wire: The way I see it

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Will China rule the world?

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