Francis Beckett

Articles by Francis Beckett

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Tony unfettered

  • 19 December 2005

2006 - Blair's last year : From a vantage point in early 2007, Francis Beckett looks back on the PM's freewheeling final drive to create a legacy

Did Charles Clarke want my views?

  • 14 November 2005

Observations on the terror bill

A class act

  • 31 October 2005

Oranges and Lemons: life in an inner city primary school Wendy Wallace Routledge, 160pp, £12.99 ISBN 0415359090

A revolutionary way with words

  • 01 August 2005

Observations on anniversary

When is a school not a school?

  • 18 July 2005

Observations on wordplay

Fulsome tribute

  • 11 July 2005

John Smith: a life Mark Stuart Politico's, 509pp, £25 ISBN 1842751263

When ministers trash your life's work

  • 13 June 2005

In justifying its new city academies, the government loves to dwell on the perceived failure of ordinary state schools. Now outraged teachers are hitting back

Why Gordon should move fast

  • 16 May 2005

Observations on Labour and the unions

Teaching the parts others fail to reach

  • 28 March 2005

With a learning fund, learning reps and a new academy, the trade unions are taking skills as seriously as pay and conditions. Francis Beckett on a progressive advance

Even Desperate Housewives is a victim of the culture wars

  • 07 March 2005

Violence and threats from militant religious groups are coming thick and fast, and the targets are widening. Francis Beckett argues that church leaders are among those who fail to express sufficient outrage

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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