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Accessing James Bond (The never-ending dance with Public Health)

The release of No Time to Die has been delayed three times due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most recently in January 2021. The film was in…

4 min readFeb 26, 2021

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Accessing James Bond (The never-ending dance with Public Health)

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the_mopster

Bond 25 and COVID-19: the problem with kicking the (film) can further down the road

[Copyright Donald Nicolson 2021]

7 min readJan 21, 2021

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Bond 25 and COVID-19: the problem with kicking the (film) can further down the road

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the_mopster

Is No Time to Die expecting cinema goers to make a trade-off?

All words are copyright Donald Nicolson, 2020

7 min readSep 9, 2020

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Is No Time to Die expecting cinema goers to make a trade-off?

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the_mopster

Locations in the Bond films

My love of Bond, James Bond, goes back apparently to 1982, when The Spy Who Loved Me first aired on UK TV screens[i]. I can remember it…

7 min readApr 19, 2020

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Locations in the Bond films

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the_mopster

Covid-19: watching the world wake up from history

That the apocalypse has for centuries been a popular genre in culture is not exactly breaking news for anyone. If we look back to the late…

3 min readMar 28, 2020

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Covid-19: watching the world wake up from history

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the_mopster

Not to argue the toss: the strange case of Dutch translation of Sesame Street

When sampling local culture on travels, I always tried to catch home-grown television programmes, even when I could not understand a word…

3 min readOct 22, 2019

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Not to argue the toss: the strange case of Dutch translation of Sesame Street

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the_mopster

For a chance to forget

All words are © Donald Nicolson

3 min readApr 25, 2019

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For a chance to forget

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the_mopster

Bond 25, suicide, and an appreciation for the writings of Ian Fleming

I have been a Bond fan as long as I can remember. So, the working title of Bond 25, “Shatterhand”, taken from Fleming’s book, “You Only…

3 min readMar 15, 2019

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the_mopster

The consequences of EU Exit for Academia

I wrote this short piece last year and posted on my LinkedIn. I think it deserves a wider audience. It goes without saying that things…

3 min readFeb 13, 2019

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the_mopster

Vienna: beyond sunrise

Vienna has more grand palaces than you can care to count. If you can afford to stay beyond sunrise, then you might be able to squeeze them…

6 min readFeb 6, 2019

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Vienna: beyond sunrise

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the_mopster

This is where I share my writings; including excerpts of a novel about how a nation and 2 people changed over 3 year, for which I seek representation…

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