Author: richardmapes

I think I take Marvel films too seriously. I just watched Captain America: Winter Soldier. It’s the emotional climax. Cap has just fought his old friend Bucky to a standstill. They are hundreds of...

It’s been a funny old 2016. Everyone died, two countries took a popular decision that turned out to be deeply unpopular, and Honey G was on the X Factor. It’s enough to make one...

The worst time, the worst time in the world to get sick, is when you’ve just come back from a long weekend. You can’t take the time off. No one will believe you’re not...

It’s always tricky, appealing to the masses, particularly when you’re relying on them to prove your opponent wrong. That’s what David Cameron found, when he turned to the British public to silence those annoying...

Mel and Sue will be replaced by a voice over with a regional accent Rather than being judged by Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood, the contestants will vote each other off for such transgressions...

It seems we still can’t make our minds up about how much, or how little, we want women to wear. While Muslim woman in France are being told to take clothes off if they...

p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; } We’ve done remarkably well in the Olympics. Great Britain are second in the medals table. We haven’t got this many medals since 1908, the first time we...

So the Olympics is over for another four years, and Britain has done incredibly well. The best its done, in fact, since 1908 when the Olympics first came to London. Of course, it was...

Last week, the mayor of Cannes decided it should be illegal to wear a burkini on the beach. Naturally, this was not the narrow-minded decision of a bigot, intent on preventing Muslim women from...

Life comes with many big questions. What’s so hard about making the trains run on time? Am I too old to start playing Pokemon Go? What exactly is a Bieber? The biggest question of...