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Never. The last James Bond book from May 2023:
>On His Majesty's Secret Service
>The latest Bond villain is Nigel Farage. Not literally, of course. But he was clearly a major inspiration for the chief antagonist in the most recent James Bond book, On His Majesty’s Secret Service. This master of international skulduggery is known as Athelstan; a former City trader with a Kentish accent, he espouses a boisterous, saloon-bar English nationalism of the kind usually ascribed to the former UKIP leader.
>Our hero has somehow become the modern age in arms, a Centrist Dad with a sidearm: he frets over articles about gut health in the New Scientist, and disdains big corporations for their supposed use of child sweatshops. His casual lover — unseen and conveniently relaxed about his extracurricular sexual adventures — is an immigration lawyer. He muses, in terms that sound suspiciously like a Nick Cohen column, about how the “far right,” which here means anyone to the right of Tony Blair, is identical to the “far left,” i.e. anyone to the left of Tony Blair. In a Budapest hotel, he opts for a healthy continental breakfast instead of a full English, like a middle-aged husband trying to shed some excess pounds before a family holiday. Not that Higson’s Bond would ever think of his weight in pounds: this archetypal British hero has allegedly “never known imperial measurements… The metric system seemed to make a lot more sense.” Meanwhile 007’s internal monologue seems to have been scripted by a Guardian intern, with a cartoonish portrayal of Viktor Orbán — strongly implied to be bankrolling Athelstan’s evil plan.

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>9 Bond movies were made between 1962 and 1975 and most of them were good>3 Bond movies were made between 2012 and 2025 and none of them…

>9 Bond movies were made between 1962 and 1975 and most of them were good
>3 Bond movies were made between 2012 and 2025 and none of them…