The Name's Not Jane Bond: Why 007 Can Never be a Woman

In the fuss to find the next James Bond, I’m surprised no one has yet mentioned Orville the Duck. A talented young actor, he may well be two foot tall, green and wear a nappy – but are we saying that society isn’t ready for a duckling Bond? Times have changed – get with the programme, grandad.

I joke but Bond has evolved far from Ian Fleming’s alcoholic Tory with flashing fists – and is now, like everything old, subject to the iconoclastic whims of the young. For the record, there’s no reason why he can’t be black. He probably can’t be Idris Elba because Elba can’t act. The world isn’t ready for a Bond who shouts his lines like he’s communicating with the deaf: “The name’s Bond. JAMES B-O-N-D. Got it, love?”

But Bond absolutely cannot be a woman. Don’t tell Gillian Anderson, who has tweeted a photo of herself as Jane Bond and triggered a twitterstorm of delight.

Daniel Craig is fine with being replaced by a vixen, which is predictable. Ed Miliband thinks it’s a great idea, which means it’s terrible. Roger Moore utterly hates it, pointing out that it would represent a huge departure from what Fleming intended. And Moore’s opposition confirms my own fears – he was, after all, the greatest Bond of all. Whatever Roger says is gospel.

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