Francis Beckett

Articles by Francis Beckett

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Awkward? Us? Never!

  • 08 September 2003

If the unions are so angry with the government, why is their top man so placatory? Francis Beckett explains

Divide and teach

  • 18 August 2003

Amid the clamour over A-levels, Labour is quietly carving up education into a two-tier system. By Francis Beckett

Mr Blair, you're no Clem Attlee

  • 28 July 2003

Francis Beckett compares a government that made a revolution with one that merely tinkers

Stalin's granny

  • 23 June 2003

Joan Maynard: passionate socialist Kristine Mason O'Connor Politico's, 356pp, £25 ISBN 1842750593

Heads threaten total shutdown

  • 16 June 2003

Observations on the schools budget crisis

NS Profile - Tony Woodley

  • 09 June 2003

The transport union's newly-elected head doesn't have serpentine political skills and doesn't care: he's ''blunt and in your face''. Tony Woodley is profiled by Francis Beckett

Charles Clarke: guilty as charged

  • 02 June 2003

Francis Beckett deplores the Education Secretary's efforts to pass the buck on the schools funding crisis

Treason: a good old British tradition

  • 05 May 2003

Should George Galloway be put on trial as a traitor to his country? Should Anthony Blunt have been? Francis Beckett suggests that Elizabeth I had the right answers

When the sums don't add up

  • 21 April 2003

Schools governors are setting illegal budgets, and risking personal bankruptcy. Francis Beckett explains why

How the private sector failed to deliver

  • 14 April 2003

Business, ministers insisted, would do a better job of running the state schools than local councils. Now, it's clear that business has almost entirely failed

Green heroes

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Green villains

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20 green heroes and villains: Villains

Bjorn Lomborg

Cloud control

Cloud control

Interview

Omar Bin Laden

The NS Interview: Omar Bin Laden

What if...

Hugh Gaitskell lived

What if... Hugh Gaitskell had lived

James Macintyre

Brown at war

Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader

Will Self

On brands

We’re all with the brand

Film review

A Serious Man

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