WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
What do we want to be?
GAVIN O’TOOLE applauds a disturbing book that demonstrates how failing immigration policy has undermined liberal democracy itself
DRIVEN BY DESPAIR: Migrant from Mexico assesses his chances of successfully crossing into the US at the Tijuana-San Diego border - the crosses represent the deaths during failed attempts at crossing
[Tomas Castelazo/CC] 
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
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
Jonathan Blitzer
Picador, £22
IF Donald Trump’s latest bile about immigrants, spat out at the Republican National Convention, was wearily predictable, that does not makes it any less alarming.
His claim that there was “a massive invasion at our southern border that has spread misery, crime, poverty, disease and destruction” across the US confirms his instinct that the signature issue of his 2016 election can be revived as a key attack line in 2024.
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