Francis Beckett

Articles by Francis Beckett

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Colour-blind

  • 31 January 2005

Anti-Apartheid: a history of the movement in Britain Roger Fieldhouse Merlin Press, 546pp, £20 (paperback) ISBN 085036549X

Blair's flagship schools and the money that never was

  • 17 January 2005

Private bodies, we are told, are putting millions into Labour's new city academies. In return, they get control of the teaching. But Francis Beckett finds the largesse curiously elusive

Low grade

  • 10 January 2005

Excellence in Education: the making of great schools Cyril Taylor and Conor Ryan David Fulton Publishers, 311pp, £25 ISBN 1843122138

How he threatened me with a libel writ

  • 06 December 2004

Watch out for a new supremo

  • 06 December 2004

Observations on schools

Rural England's silent people

  • 29 November 2004

Observations on hunting (1)

Setbacks for faith schools

  • 08 November 2004

Observations on religion (1)

A posher sort of social engineer

  • 01 November 2004

Observations on universities

A timely warning from Cherie

  • 25 October 2004

Observations on the British in Iraq (2)

Not in God's name

  • 25 October 2004

Francis Beckett on religion and politics

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

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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