BOND is Black? Bond is Bi-? Bond is a Babe? No, Bond has buggered off somewhere, he’s missing, and a new batch of double-0’s that tick all the politically correct boxes are out to find him.
Johanna Harwood (a neat in-joke for Bond geeks) is 003; she’s the babe with the MBChB who uses her formidable operative skills in the field as an ENT surgeon. Joseph Dryden is 004; he’s black and gay and from a poor background. Imagine James Baldwin with a Bullworker. 009 is Sid Bashir; he’s got a first in Philosophy and Mathematics from King’s. This trumps Bond’s passing the tripos in Oriental Languages. Sid is more “can do” than Kant.
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