Would Sean Connery’s 007 survive modern cinema? We analyse 1960s Bond tropes, modern hero flaws, and how to write a grounded secret agent today.
If Sean Connery’s James Bond walked into a modern cinema today in a brand-new release… what would actually happen? Would audiences swoon at the effortless charm, the tailored Savile Row suit, and the Walther PPK? Or would they recoil at a man who routinely uses physical coercion, exhibits ice-cold sociopathic detachment, and treats women with blatant predatory contempt? In short: Would a 1960s Bond be cancelled today?
A fatal Florida collision deserved a proper investigation into driving, licensing and enforcement. Instead, the US Department of Homeland Security turned “Mr Singh” into the villain of an AI-generated action poster. That s collective blame with potentially dangerous consequences
“Get off our roads; you don’t know how to drive, Mr Singh.” Imagine opening your phone and finding that message attached to an image of somebody who looks like you, carries a name familiar to your community and is being confronted by a giant robot. At best, you might assume it was a bad joke. At worst, something produced by a far-right troll. What you probably would not expect is that it came from the official social-media account of the United States Department of Homeland Security. And alongside it were the words: “America for Americans.”
From comic book to full-blown international thriller, this Jamshed Khan reboot is a story that’s been 30 years in the making
A relentless chase. A deadly secret. No way out. That’s the promise at the heart of Silent Ruin, my brand-new international spy thriller and the first in a new series featuring Jamshed Khan. This is a character I originally created over three decades ago, now reborn into a far more grown-up, high-stakes world of espionage, danger, and consequence.
Jaguar Land Rover will cut around 4,000 global jobs while seeking £1.7 billion in savings. Are tariffs, China and Jaguar’s luxury-EV gamble pushing Britain’s biggest carmaker into crisis?
Jaguar Land Rover has confirmed that it intends to cut around 4,000 jobs globally over the next two years, amounting to nearly 10 per cent of its worldwide workforce. The redundancies will primarily affect salaried, management and other non-manufacturing roles, with JLR hoping to achieve as many of the reductions as possible voluntarily. The company has yet to reveal precisely which sites, departments or countries will carry the greatest burden.
Changan Deepal S05 RWD review: 303-mile range, 268bhp and huge tech for £37,990. Does this Chinese electric SUV deserve your shortlist?
The Changan Deepal S05 arrives in Britain with 303 miles of claimed range, rear-wheel drive and enough technology to keep a small branch of Currys busy. Has this unfamiliar electric SUV earned a place on your shortlist?
Amazon has replaced Clarkson, Hammond and May on The Grand Tour, and the BBC has just confirmed the revival of Top Gear. But has anyone stopped to ask if we really need these car shows?
Top Gear is coming back. The BBC has officially confirmed it, although there’s no word on when, what form it will take or who will present it. Meanwhile, Amazon is relaunching The Grand Tour next month with an entirely new trio: Thomas Holland and James Engelsman from the hugely successful Throttle House YouTube channel, joined by trainspotter and social media personality Francis Bourgeois. All six episodes arrive on Prime Video on 4 September 2026.
The Kia EV2 is the brand’s smallest and cheapest electric car, offering up to 275 miles of range from £24,245. We test the predicted bestselling GT-Line to see whether its big-car maturity makes it the small EV to beat
The Kia EV2 is the smallest and cheapest electric car the Korean manufacturer sells in Britain. That usually means a worthy little urban runabout built to a price, with the interior ambience of a bare cupboard and unpainted bumpers. But the EV2 has other ideas. It arrives with the upright stance, bold lighting and visual confidence of something at least one size larger – and a couple of grades more expensive.
Every reckless clip posted for likes risks lives, betrays car culture and hands regulators another argument for surveillance, automated intervention and a future in which responsible drivers are no longer trusted with their own cars
Let me start with something that should be so staggeringly obvious that having to write it feels rather like explaining to an adult that fire is hot, cliffs are high and attempting to headbutt a moving train is unlikely to improve your afternoon: if you drive dangerously on a public road, film yourself doing it and then upload the footage for likes, follows, shares, notoriety, validation or whatever tiny digital pat on the head you are desperately seeking, you are not proving that you are a petrolhead, a skilled driver, a rebel, a hero or the missing member of some bargain-basement Fast & Furious tribute act; you are proving that you are prepared to endanger your own life, the lives of complete strangers and, because the consequences never stop with the person holding the steering wheel, the future freedom of every responsible enthusiast who enjoys cars without treating the rest of the population as unwilling extras in a stunt video.
Your next new car could know where you went last night, how quickly you accelerated, how hard you braked, which phone you paired with it and whether your eyes were actually on the road
Here is something rather important that is probably buried three menus deep in your next car. Actually, scrub that: it may already be buried three menus deep in your current car, somewhere between the ambient-lighting colour selector and the setting that makes the dashboard bong furiously because you dared to glance at the heater controls it forced onto a touchscreen in the first place.
Do cameras have to be yellow? Is “10% plus 2” really law? Motoring lawyer Jeremy Sirrell separates UK speeding law from motoring folklore and explains the mistakes that could cost drivers their licences
Do speed cameras have to be yellow? Is the famous “10% plus 2 mph” allowance actually written into law? Can you briefly exceed the limit while overtaking, or argue that a 20 mph restriction is absurd for the road? Speeding law inspires more folklore than almost any other part of motoring. Unfortunately, repeating something confidently in a pub, owners’ club or WhatsApp group does not turn it into a defence.
