Margaret Beckett Margaret Beckett Dame Margaret Mary Beckett (; born 15 January 1943) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Derby South since 1983. She was the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party under John Smith from 1992 to 1994, and briefly served as Leader of the Labour Party after Smith died suddenly. She later served in the Cabinet under Prime Minister Tony Blair in a number of roles, becoming Britain's first female Foreign Secretary in 2006. Beckett was first elected to Parliament in 1974 for Lincoln and held junior positions in the governments
The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic whose job it is to care so much and so intelligently." "New York Times" book critic Dwight Garner described "The First Collection" as "by turns loose and warm and finicky and outraged, and its best pieces are more observant than 94 percent of the first novels that have come my way this year." The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic is a 2015 essay collection by music critic Jessica Hopper. The idea of collecting her columns into a book had been suggested to Hopper some