Bøker av Francis Beckett

A unique portrait of one of the great British statesmen of the twentieth century.

May 1945. Britain celebrates victory and cheers Winston Churchill.The people who fought the war want a better, fairer world, and only Labour is offering it.But the Labour Party is led by a nonentity --"a modest little man with plenty to be modest about." He says almost nothing. He sits in his grey suit and puffs his pipe.One wit remarked: "An empty taxi drew up and Clement Attlee got out."How can the insignificant, passionless little Labour leader Clem Attlee possibly compete with Churchill, and bring in a social revolution?

London in the future: third world poverty, tuc-tucs on the streets and an authoritarian tyrant in Downing Street.The Prime Minister addresses the nation during the blitz - but it isn't Winston Churchill.The Ghost of Christmas Past copes with the age of the internet.The strange premiership of Jeremy Corbyn.These twelve stories are about what might become of us - or what might have become of us, if things had panned out slightly differently.

Jeremy is a writer who is low on money. This changes when he contacts his ex-girlfriend, Ruth, and learns he may well be a father, so he needs to become financially stable. Proving it's not what you know but who you know, he soon has three important clients eager to hire him for some freelance editing. But is that really all they are after?

Beckett compelling shows Attlee's relevance to a new political generation in this new edition of his acclaimed biography of the man he argues was Britain's greatest ever reforming Prime Minister.

Exposes the government's city academies project: the ways in which companies and rich individuals have been persuaded to sponsor academies, their real reasons for sponsoring them, the lies that have been told in support of the academies project, and the disastrous effect it will have on Britain's schools.

Fatherly friend to JFK he repaired the rift between the USA and Britain created by the Suez crisis.