‘Woke’ James Bond Novel Slammed for Having Conservative ‘Anti-Trans’ Villain

NewcYork Post ^ | Sep. 9, 2023 | Alexander Hall

[nickcarraway]

Multiple conservative critics condemned a recent James Bond novel for vilifying former President Trump and other conservative politicians in a story about a dastardly international plot against King Charles III.

Author Charlie Higson had been authorized by Ian Fleming Publications, who own the rights to the James Bond franchise, to write a new book to celebrate King Charles III’s coronation. Higson touted that his new book, “On His Majesty’s Secret Service,” would feature “sex, violence, cars, a colorful villain with a nasty henchman, and of course, Bond himself, so well-known and yet so unknowable.”

But in early September, conservative culture critics from multiple outlets condemned the novel as yet another beloved franchise that has been corrupted by modern “woke” political messaging. The New York Times opinion columnist Ross Douthat scorched the novel in a piece headlined “How America Made James Bond ‘Woke,’” warning that it juxtaposes a progressive version of the globetrotting spy against a caricature of conservatism, “007 is charged with protecting King Charles III from a dastardly plot hatched by a super villain,” Aethelstan of Wessex, who can be described as a “Brexiteer, a right-wing populist, apparently the true and natural heir to Goldfinger and Blofeld.”

[Obadiah]

Of course, that’s what religious fanatics/lunatics do.

[Tell It Right]

In the woke novel the hero’s favorite line is: “The name is Bondage. Jane Bondage.”

[Angelino97]

I can't wait to see Wokefinger or The Spy Who Misgendered Me.

[xp38]

Exactly. The original Bond was set in the cold war era of the 1950s. The communists were the bad guys. Still are but they call themselves woke now.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

I identify as a “Conservative ‘Anti-Trans’ Villain” if any Lefties should think to ask.

[peggybac]

2nd link said there were 3 viruses...