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Francis Beckett

Francis Beckett

The Guardian

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The Peaky Blinders film is pandering to these populist times – I should know, the Nazi in it is my father

The new Peaky Blinders film, The Immortal Man, offers us a character, John Beckett, who is a British Nazi. One of the two founders of Britain’s...

24.03.2026 10

The Guardian

Francis Beckett

The history of modern Ireland, seen through the lives of its leaders

01.01.2026 20

The Spectator

Francis Beckett