Francis Beckett

Politics

How car dealers can run state schools

• 20 September 2004
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If you've got £2m, you can "sponsor" one of new Labour's academies, and control teachers and curriculum. But you don't actually need to stump up cash

Society

The not so special relationship

• 13 September 2004

Observations on Labour versus labour

World Affairs

The story of four women who trusted Uncle Joe

• 16 August 2004

Politics

Back to school

• 16 February 2004

University to Uni: the politics of higher education in England since 1944 Robert Stevens Politico's, 196pp, £15.99 ISBN 1842751026

Society

You ain't seen nothing yet!

• 26 January 2004

Observations on top-up fees

Society

The past is a free tuition country

• 19 January 2004

Observations on top-up fees (1)

Politics

Is this union leader the victim of a dastardly Blairite plot?

• 29 September 2003

Labour party conference - Francis Beckett hears allegations of secret meetings, tape recordings, sinister letters and ministerial subversion from Derek Simpson, the embattled left-wing boss of Amicus

Society

Pay up and play the game

• 22 September 2003

Observations on posh school fees

Politics

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

Politics

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