Jemima Lewis

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Jemima Lewis

Paddington Bear statue stolen from Newbury in a police car after it was recoveredNow look, I have nothing against Paddington Bear. But if I did, just hypothetically, would it change my moral standing in the world? Would it cast my failings in a new and sinister light? Would it indicate, even, a nascent treachery against the values of my country? I submit, your honour, that it would not.

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Jemima Lewis

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Jemima Lewis

An awful lot of parents, right now, are asking ourselves this: ✅👧👦❓Except we say it with words – like Victorians or something. Are the kids all right? How can we tell, when we literally don’t speak their language? One of the most hair-raising moments in Adolescence – the hit Netflix drama about a 13-year-old boy accused of murder – occurs when the detective investigating the case gets a linguistics lesson from his teenage son, Adam. Advertisement“It’s not going well ’cause you’re not getting it.

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Jemima Lewis

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Jemima Lewis

My teenage daughter can’t stop reading books. Two a week, at least. She’s at it all the time: over breakfast, in the bath, meandering distractedly to the bus stop. If I try to talk to her, she raises one hand as a stop sign and gently shushes me, before bowing once more over the page. If this sounds like a middle-class boast – well, obviously it is. A bookworm in the family feels like a miracle in the smartphone age. But the credit does not belong to me.