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Francis Beckett is a freelance journalist, writing regularly for The New Statesman, The Guardian and The Times Educational Supplement about education as well as politics and contemporary history. His other books are: Enemy Within, about Britain's Communists was published in 1995 to critical acclaim; and The Rebel Who Lost His Cause, about the extraordinary personal and political odyssey of his own father, published in 1999. He is a former Labour Party press officer and a former president of the National Union of journalists. His first play, The Sons of Catholic Gentlemen, was broadcast by LBC in September 1997.
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