Francis Beckett

Articles by Francis Beckett

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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 double

  • 10 February 2003

On a Clear Day David Blunkett Michael O'Mara Books, 256pp, £17.99 ISBN 1843170078

A retirement triggers civil war

  • 27 January 2003

Observations on union rows

How business will pay the university piper

  • 20 January 2003

Ministers will let more working-class children on to degree courses, but those students will have to learn how to oil the wheels of commerce. Francis Beckett reports

The firefighters' secrets of spin

  • 16 December 2002

Despite Gilchrist's mega-blunder, the fire dispute shows that union PR has got smarter

Discriminate more, not less

  • 09 December 2002

Are universities giving preferential treatment to state school pupils, and rejecting private school pupils with better A-levels? No, finds Francis Beckett, but they ought to be

A republican's final act

  • 18 November 2002

Observations on Northern Ireland schools

The Prime Minister prepares to retire

  • 18 November 2002

Francis Beckett reports from an alternative universe

NS Profile - Denis MacShane

  • 11 November 2002

Charming, egocentric and clever, the new minister for Europe "can't bear to talk like a woodentop". It's surprising he's got so far. Denis MacShane profiled by Francis Beckett

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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