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WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
Acute focus on left-green engagement with science and natural world
JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
RELATIVELY brief and somewhat eclectic, this collection of essays on the links between science and socialism is nevertheless an outstanding guide to the subject.
It starts with a fascinating exploration of the life and work of “red chemist” Carl Schorlemmer, which he uses as a means of analysing the left’s relationship to science and the natural world in general.
For those keen to label Marxism as somehow innately anti-ecological and fixated upon unfettered industrial growth, Ian Angus’s nuanced and evidence-based conclusions might come as something of a revelation.
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