Book Review: Dangerous Hero: Corbyn’s Ruthless Plot for Power by Tom Bower

 

Tom Bower’s Dangerous Hero isn’t a biography, it’s an exposé. A forensic, furious takedown of Jeremy Corbyn, the hard-Left ideologue who came within inches of power and would have wrecked Britain from the inside. It is a book every Briton should read, not because it’s pleasant, but because it’s necessary. Corbyn is painted, quite rightly, not as a kindly granddad with a jam-making hobby, but as a lifelong Marxist agitator obsessed with class warfare, wedded to anti-Western ideology, and surrounded by thugs, antisemites, and terrorist sympathisers. Bower’s central thesis is that Corbyn’s entire political career was built not on compassion, but on calculated ruthlessness, a man who cloaks himself in virtue while aligning with tyrants. The evidence is damning. Corbyn’s decades of cheerleading for the IRA, Hezbollah, and Hamas aren’t youthful misjudgements, they’re a pattern. His relentless support for regimes that hate Britain and despise freedom isn’t a bug; it’s a feature. Bower documents it all: the alliances with Stalinists, the tolerance of antisemitism, the disdain for liberal democracy. And he does it with names, dates, and unassailable receipts. Critics sneered that Bower was biased. Of course he is, against lies, against extremism, and against a man who would have turned the UK into a client state of the Corbynista cult. Bias is no sin when you’re right. And Bower is right. Corbynism was never about helping the poor. It was about smashing the system, destroying Britain’s heritage, and replacing it with a socialist dystopia. Bower exposes the cowardice of the media, the gullibility of the youth, and the rot within Labour that allowed Corbyn to rise. This is a political horror story. A warning. A battle cry. Read it not for entertainment, but as a survival manual for a nation that nearly surrendered to its enemies within. Verdict: If Orwell wrote political biography in the 21st century, this would be it. Bower doesn’t just assassinate Corbyn’s character, he buries the whole ideology. Bravo.