Outstanding activist: Hank Roberts
WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
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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
WHILE the trade union movement is full of larger-than-life figures, Hank Roberts is certainly one of a kind.
How many other trade union leaders could claim to have stolen a firearm, drunk bleach, hospitalised several people, lived in a tent for six months to halt privatisation of a school, appeared before a High Court judge at the Old Bailey and then been elected president of their union, subsequently securing one of the most significant trade union amalgamations in recent history?
