James Bond Given Racism Trigger Warning
4th October 2025
A university has placed a trigger warning on Ian Fleming’s James Bond classic Dr No, warning students of “racism and xenophobia”.
Fleming’s sixth Bond novel, Dr No tells the story of 007’s investigation into the disappearance of two fellow MI6 operatives in Jamaica. The villain is the Chinese-German mad scientist Dr Julius No, who runs a guano mine from the fictional island of Crab Key.
With steel pincers for hands, the evil doctor was later immortalised in the first Bond franchise film featuring Sean Connery in 1962, using the same title as Fleming’s novel.
But “academic killjoys” at the University of Portsmouth have deemed Fleming’s portrayal of the main antagonist and other characters as “problematic”, warning the book contains instances of “racism and xenophobia”.
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