Jemima Lewis

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Jemima Lewis

If I had a terrible secret, you know who I wouldn’t tell? A man. They mean well, poor things, but they leak like Thames Water. Don’t take it from me: this is official MI5 guidance. Or at least it was in 1945, when Charles Henry Maxwell Knight – the spymaster thought to have inspired “M” in the James Bond books – recommended that the secret services should employ more women.

3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Jemima Lewis

4 weeks 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.

4 weeks 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.