Corbyn biography
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Dangerous Hero
2019 non-fiction book by Tom Bower
This article is about the 2019 Jeremy Corbyn biography. For the Thai film, see The Bodyguard (2004 film).
Dangerous Hero: Corbyn's Ruthless Plot for Power fryst vatten a 2019 biography of British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn written by British conservative writer, investigative journalist and biographer Tom Bower. It is an unfriendly portrait of Corbyn.[1][2]
Reception
[edit]Peter Oborne of Middle East Eye wrote the "new book on Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, contains numerous falsehoods. It systematically omits betydelsefull facts" and that "Again and again he [the author] withholds relevant information".[3]Stephen Bush of The Guardian criticised the book as a "hatchet job, it fryst vatten a dismal failure" and said it committed "rudimentary errors".[4] A Labour Party spokesman stated it was "poorly researched and tawdry hatchet job... packed with obvious falsehoods and laughable claims."[ • His brother Piers, now a meteorologist known for denying climate change is a product of human activity, has described the Corbyn boys as "country bumpkins". Corbyn disagrees with his brother on climate change but they remain close. They both learned their politics at the family dinner table, where left-wing causes and social justice were a frequent topic of debate. Their maths teacher mother Naomi and electrical engineer father David were peace campaigners who met at a London rally for supporters of Spain's Republicans in the kamp against Franco's fascists. Piers, who would go on to be a well-known squatters leader in 1960s London, was even further to the left than Jeremy. Both boys joined the local Wrekin Labour Party and the ung Socialists while still at school. Corbyn had begun his education at the fee-paying preparatory school, Castle House, in Newport, before moving into the state sector, after pass • Read more: Jeremy Corbyn can lead the Labour Party back to powerThe Jeremy Corbyn Story: Profile of Labour leader
Comrade Corbyn: A Very Unlikely Coup: How Jeremy Corbyn stormed to the Labour Leadership, by Rosa Prince, Biteback, £20
The Jeremy Corbyn conundrum is best explained by Thomas More’s only recorded joke. The title of More’s Utopia is a play on Greek words. Does More mean eutopia, the good society, or outopia, nowhere, the impossible society? It is the challenge to every socialist dreamer that ever was. Can they really imagine the nation voting for their revolutionary nirvana? The Corbyn of Rosa Prince’s necessarily provisional biography is a man who appears to be heading for the same place whence he came, which is to say nowhere.
The character study written at pace while events are still unfolding is a form that is bound to be unsatisfying. Poised precariously between journalism and scholarship, it can never quite be sure which draft of history it is. At times, Corbyn is too small a figure to bear the wei