James Bond fans furious as novels edited to have ‘offensive’ terms removed by woke publishers

JAMES Bond novels are the most recent to have “offensive” phrases eliminated by woke publishers.

Author Ian Fleming’s 007 spy sequence is being modernised to guard readers’ “sensitivity”, publishers say.

Ian Fleming's spy sequence is being rewritten for a contemporary viewers to guard readers 'sensitivity'Credit score: Rex

Philip Dewhurst, president of the James Bond Fan Membership, mentioned: “This looks like the most recent in an extended line of maximum over­reactions to a difficulty no one requested to be solved.

“Airbrushing the issues we don’t like from our previous are fraught with hazard.

“Please don’t rewrite phrases of an writer 70 years on.”

Within the new model of Stay And Let Die, a scene in a New York membership is altered to take away a striptease reference.

The unique model from 1954 reads: “Bond may hear the viewers panting and grunting like pigs on the trough.”

The revised model will now say: “Bond may sense the electrical rigidity within the room.”

The N-word, which writer Ian Fleming used within the Fifties and Nineteen Sixties, has been eliminated.

However some outdated references to different ethnicities stay, as do phrases such because the “candy tang of rape”.

Ian Fleming Publications mentioned the re-issued novels will function a disclaimer stating: “This ebook was written at a time when phrases and attitudes which could be thought-about offensive by fashionable readers have been commonplace.”

It comes amid a row over Roald Dahl’s youngsters’s books being stripped of probably offensive phrases akin to “fats”, and Willy Wonka’s Oompa Loompas changing into gender impartial.