Tag: Ian Fleming

In this week's London Calling, the rows are about whether democratic institutions are beyond repair, how best to defend our freedom and the state of GB News. it's Mozart v Salieri, but you'll have to guess who's who.

Ian Fleming's James Bond novels are the latest literary works to be butchered by sensitivity readers. Changes in racial language are one thing, but other edits reduce Fleming's descriptive flair to embarrassing clichés.

The BBC has compiled a list of 70 'great' books to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee. Among the authors excluded are J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, V.S. Pritchett, Ian Fleming and Kingsley Amis.