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WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
Barbed commentaries from a master satirist
TOM KING recommends Martin Rowson's latest unfettered assault on personal and political pretence
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
MARTIN ROWSON, in referring to Boris Johnson as a “Cloying Classical cum-stain of Cataline Calamity,” is both an excellent judge of character and in possession of an admirable aptitude for acerbic alliteration.
Perhaps better known for his brilliantly derisive cartoons, in Pastrami Faced Racist — a collection of poetry about the farcical realities of modern Britain — he casts his satirical gaze over contemporary political and literary life, swapping brush for pen and witty and absurdist verse.
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