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WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
When the going gets tough, the tough get gigging
There are plenty of radical cultural events out there to support in the next few weeks
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
THERE is something totally surreal about doing a column about a life as a travelling performance poet and musician when the country is going through its biggest constitutional upheaval since the civil war.
Especially so writing this on the day following Johnson’s prorogation of Parliament, approved by the Queen.
Such an order, enacted by a constitutional figurehead on behalf of a prime minister with no popular mandate, has no more historical legitimacy than it did in 1642.
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