Francis Beckett

Articles by Francis Beckett

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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

A perfect spy

  • 14 April 2003

Elusive Rothschild: the life of Victor, third baron Kenneth Rose Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 338pp, £20 ISBN 0297812297

What has America ever done for us?

  • 03 March 2003

Was the US really at Britain's side at her moments of greatest national need - the Second World War, for example, or the Falklands war? Francis Beckett finds the special relationship rather one-sided

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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