WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
An ongoing anti-fascist inspiration
The Young’uns’ SEAN COONEY tells Susan Darlington why a working-class hero from the 1930s is celebrated in their new show
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
THE global rise of the far right and the 80th anniversary of the end of the Spanish civil war make The Young’uns’ fifth album as pertinent as it could be.
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