I’ve yet to find anyone who thinks having Noel Coward play Dr. No would have been even a vaguely good idea, and that included the man himself. So what did Ian Fleming see in Coward - friend, neighbour, best man, godfather to his son - which the rest of us have missed?

Sam Rogers delves into the similarities between the films in detail, exploring whether the overlaps are merely coincidences, nice easter eggs or whether there is something more substantial going on.

You would think that a film which opens with three men pretending to be blind would alert us to the need to look at things differently. But six decades of straight-washing has obscured quite how queer Bond’s beginnings were - and still are to this day. It’s high time we took the blinkers off: Bond was born this way.

The Avengers (the proper one, not the Marvel one) has gone down in cinema history as an unremitting disaster. But time has been kind and, viewed more than two decades later, it’s an enjoyable 86 minutes if you’re in the right frame of mind - a queer frame of mind that is.

The scenes where Bond sneaks around places - hotels, enemy bases, even his boss’s house - are highlights of the series. What is about them that makes them tick - and our hearts race? Do we experience these episodes differently if we have reasons to feel fearful in our own lives? How much is the music responsible for their effectiveness? And what are Licence To Queer readers’ favourite sneaky scenes?

No one integrates the masculine and feminine qualities of James Bond into the music as well as David Arnold. Is that why we keep wanting him back?

Bond purists might baulk but the best Martinis in the world are neither shaken nor stirred. Just ask the experts at Dukes in London, where Ian Fleming preferred to drink them.

Nothing else tastes quite like Campari. It’s an essential ingredient of the Milano-Torino, the Americano, the Negroni and the Negroni Sbagliato. In this video we take you through the history of all four of these classic drinks, making them live as we go. We also discuss Bond's experiences with these cocktails and what qualifies some drinks as more 'masculine' than others.

Muddle some mint leaves in the bottom of a glass. Add lime juice, sugar and rum before topping with soda water. Optional: a dash of homosexuality.

Much as the Bond character might persuade us to indulge in a fantasy of being able to live self-sufficiently, the truth is he’s always been part of a family. 007’s recent adventures place him at the centre of an ever-expanding ‘found family’, something he has in common with the heroes of the Marvel, Star Wars and Fast & Furious cinematic franchises.

Football and/or James Bond are ready-made conversation starters among many men - things which you can more or less safely assume they will have an opinion about. But although these social lubricants overlap in significant ways, they present radically alternative versions of masculinity. Do we even realise how much we have been shaped by these cultural tentpoles? And why aren’t we all talking about this more?