Francis Beckett

Articles by Francis Beckett

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Learning when to go from prime ministers past

  • 09 October 2006
  • 1 comment

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

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

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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