WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
Liverpool’s sell-by date
CHRIS MOSS welcomes a radical history that brings marginalised stories and overlooked people and agencies to the centre
HONORABLE TRADITION OF PROTEST: Junior doctors on a picket line outside the Royal Liverpool Hospital, as thousands go on strike in a dispute with the government over new contracts, January 2016
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
Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain
Sam Wetherell, Head of Zeus, £25
USING Liverpool as a prism to reflect on the “unmaking” of Britain is a departure from most treatments of the city.
Liverpudlians have often represented themselves as apart from the nation, as internationalists and Atlanticists, as more Irish than English.
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JAMES NALTON writes how the Liverpudlian carried himself like a seasoned international against Greece in his senior debut for the Three Lions
In the third of four extracts from his new memoir, the Morning Star’s legendary former industrial reporter ROY JONES recounts standing for election for the CPGB — and booking Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger and The Beatles for gigs
MIKE SQUIRES recommends a rare history of the Communist Party in Liverpool