Jemima Lewis



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Full name: Jemima Lewis

Area of interest: Society and Culture

Journals: The Sunday Telegraph

Email: [mailto:jemima_lewis@dennis.co.uk jemima_lewis@dennis.co.uk] [mailto:jemima.lewis@virgin.net jemima.lewis@virgin.net]

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Career: |cgn:The+Week|cgid:436805302|tsid:3719|cn:Brand|mt:Phrase|nw:search|crid:996444442 The Week (UK current affairs magazine): Consultant editor (since 1997), and also Contributing editor (since 2006); The Telegraph on Sunday: columnist, 2003/2005; The Independent: columnist, 2005/2007; The Telegraph on Sunday: columnist, 2008- Current position/role: Columnist


 * also writes/has written for: The Guardian, The Spectator

Other roles: The Week: Consultant and Contributing editor
 * see also: Dennis Publishing Ltd

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Viewpoints/Insight: Journalism is crass, especially for women - The Independent, 23rd September 2006

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The Sunday Telegraph:
Column remit: Society, Culture (esp. issues of identity and womens's issues)

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Website: Telegraph.co / Jemima Lewis

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Day published: Sunday

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 * will never go out of fashion in the playground'' - Hypothetical homosexuals won't be enough to liberate Britain’s youth from the shackles of peer pressure - 25th January 2011
 * always had a taste for cakes – now we can make them'' - Now home-baking is seen as rather clever and glamorous, in a too-posh-to-shop, Kirsty Allsop-type way - 12th January 2011
 * nice box of Quality Street or a £200 bonus?'' - British families haven't a clue when it comes to Christmas tips - 20th December 2010
 * males show their true strengths in the delivery suite'' - John Barnes was actually being rather au courant - 10th November 2010
 * Claire Rayner, you were the best'' - We have lost not just a good woman, but a part of our culture - 13th October 2010
 * posing in your undies empowering, or just pants?'' - Michelle Mone is indeed an example to us all – of how easy it is, and how daft, to measure your worth by your waistline - 29th September 2010
 * no law against breastfeeding'' - Zealous officials are on a mission to stamp out offence before it can even be taken - 25th September 2010
 * today, you can still tell a gentleman by his shoes'' - In the political classes, shoes can still point the way to a man's moral character - 22nd September 2010
 * can we have the bedtime story?'' - Why do childhood games and stories have to be 'educational' - 22nd September 2010
 * blame the bride, Rev Fraser'' - The big white wedding isn't necessarily about the bride's vanity - 8th August 2010
 * set me free – and gave me a first-class tan'' - Don't tell anyone, but maternity leave is a wonderful way to spend your time at someone else's expense - 2nd August 2010
 * in talent - not in a degree'' -Enjoy university, but don't expect it to pave the way to a good job - 17th July 2010
 * myths of motherhood'' - The National Childbirth Trust are determined to push the Positive Birth Experience - 11th July 2010
 * May will have to think again about drinking'' - Reviewing the licensing hours is one thing, but the British need reminding that it is possible to drink with dignity - 23rd May 2010
 * time we talked rubbish'' - Rubbish collection is a public service not a private sacrament - 7th March 2010
 * our Cheryl, not his'' - Our glee over Ashley Cole's split from his wife Cheryl had more to do with our feelings than theirs - 28th February 2010
 * Denise Van Outen a job? Not likely'' - Pregnant women can behave so oddly, it is not surprising the BBC won't take a gamble on her - 21st February 2010
 * Day: The risks of playground passion'' - why a headmaster was right to ban cards from the classroom - 13th February 2010
 * have lost the habit of caring for our elders'' - Jemima Lewis asks whether children should be forced to look after for their parents - 7th February 2010
 * taking a shot in the dark'' - Most parents are as ignorant as I am on the measles triple vaccine - 31st January 2010
 * Russians who skated into a minefield'' - Jemima Lewis on the world champions who sparked an international race row - 24th January 2010
 * careless pork cost lives?'' - Jemima Lewis asks whether it matters if cartoon characters wear seatbelts - 17th January 2010
 * ill babies: the day joy turned to fear'' - Bliss, one of the charities supported by the Telegraph Christmas Charity Appeal, is invaluable to very sick babies such as my nephew Ned - 10th January 2010
 * New Year's Eve, let's be lonely together'' - Shunning New Year's Eve doesn't bring a rush of liberation - just more misery - 27th December 2009
 * twilight zone of Twitter'' - The woman who Tweeted while her son was dying will never get the emotional support she hopes for from the online 'community' - 20th December 2009
 * office party must not die'' - The British office party is an institution vital to our atomised lives - 13th December 2009
 * knows no mercy - and not just for Ed Miliband'' - The world of the parenting website Mumsnet is a fearsome place - 6th December 2009
 * schools are truly a blessing'' - Despite our uneasy feelings about sectarianism, faith schools do the most to promote cohesion - 29th November 2009
 * Ord's philosophy is one we all could learn from'' - The Oxford philosophy scholar who proposes to give away a third of his salary to charity has set us all an example - 22nd November 2009
 * playground is a jungle'' - Unfortunate as the case of Jay Jones was, childhood is almost by definition a traumatic experience - 15th November 2009
 * for kids? It's sheer chic'' - Stella McCartney's new range for Gap Kids prompts a simple question: why does a two-year-old need epaulettes? - 8th November 2009
 * carefully round the grandparent trap'' - The Tories promise to give grandparents rights. They should include the right to say no - 1st November 2009
 * the nanny state is right'' - Deep down, you know it's true: television is not good for your child - 18th October 2009
 * used to get a proper education in hardship'' - The poverty of today's students pales in comparison to that of previous generations - 11th October 2009
 * us pestered parents'' - The less people know about your child, the bossier they seem to become - 4th October 2009
 * Come Dancing: It's all about the couples'' - Forget the dancers - the secret of Strictly Come Dancing is that it caters to both husband and wife - 27th September 2009
 * not just Baroness Scotland - we should all come clean about our cleaners'' - Baroness Scotland isn't the only one to employ someone she shouldn't have - 20th September 2009
 * me food, not nutrition'' - Vitamin pills do nothing that a balanced diet can’t do better - 13th September 2009
 * Palin achieves the impossible'' - Jemima Lewis is impressed by the former vice-presidential candidate's household arrangements - 6th September 2009
 * Loaded Lad to Heteropolitan Man'' - The lad's mag - perhaps the coarsest invention in the history of mainstream journalism - is in decline. But are the likes of Men's Health any better - 16th August 2009
 * give me a sinking feeling'' - The freedom to wear a small, practical swimsuit without feeling self-conscious is hard-won, and fragile - 16th August 2009
 * to appreciate fine swine'' - Butchery is the ultimate antidote to lazy eating - 16th August 2009
 * Obama may help Americans to save face'' - Taxing cosmetic surgery is a brilliant idea - 2nd August 2009
 * et al: Ugly clobber for le beau monde'' - Designer clothes are often so ugly that only the most expensively beautiful bodies can pull them off - 2nd August 2009
 * makes a mother break'' - Work and child-rearing are such different disciplines that combining the two could make anyone feel unhinged - 2nd August 2009
 * Hates Guitars: A case of YouTube justice'' - United Breaks Guitars – a catchy, country-style song accompanied by a video featuring airport baggage handlers hurling guitars through the air – has become a YouTube phenomenon - 26th July 2009
 * those first-borns a break'' - First-time mothers are notoriously paranoid - 26th July 2009
 * do' makes all the difference'' - The Church of England is right to coax couples who already have children to the altar. Even today, marriage provides security - 26th July 2009
 * Jones's baby: a ghastly conception'' - There is no comic gold in the anguish of a has experienced the anguish of a woman trying to have a baby when her ovaries are past their best - 19th July 2009
 * Obama is not pitch perfect'' - The US President cannot be expected to do everything right - 19th July 2009
 * the bounds of law'' - When I was growing up in the Seventies, a policeman was still an awesome figure of authority, three short decades later, his successors are held in something perilously close to contempt - 19th July 2009
 * wallflowers can be fathers'' - Don't give up on men who can't dance - 12th July 2009
 * are tourists, we are travellers'' - British tourists behave very differently depending on where they go - 12th July 2009
 * does us all good'' - Channel 4's Life Class is a useful lesson on the human form, whatever the moral guardians of daytime TV say - 12th July 2009
 * Dead on my feet, actually'' - Tiredness is more dangerous for women than for men; it can even kill us - 5th July 2009
 * unacceptable face'' - You must 'look great’: it is written in the staff rule book - 28th June 2009
 * I have my licence to kill'' - Last week I passed my driving test - 28th June 2009
 * food: a global tide of gloop'' - It is a curious fact that, having invented the most disgusting cuisine on earth, Americans tend to be inordinately proud of their food - 28th June 2009
 * your own: The last oases of the good life'' - Boddington's Berries – one of Britain's first pick-your-own farms – has closed its doors to the public because it can no longer afford the insurance - 7th June 2009
 * Brown twitters, while Rome burns'' - While her husband's government has been collapsing around her, Sarah Brown has been posting sunny dispatches about baking cookies and visiting the zoo - 7th June 2009
 * elections 2009: I don't want to talk about my vote'' - I was brought up to believe that you should never ask anyone how they voted, nor tell anyone - so why has this changed - 7th June 2009
 * outbreaks of the unforetold'' - Bournemouth was wrong to lambast the Met Office for its "overcautious" bank holiday forecast - 31st May 2009
 * birth hurts. End of story'' - Of course "natural" birth techniques don't work, the pain of labour is real, not psychological - 31st May 2009
 * your children to get lost'' - Teenagers on gap years can be fitted with a GPS tracking device, but parents must resist the lure of surveillance - 31st May 2009
 * up the sleeve of a T-shirt'' - How did an amusingly tacky T-shirt become a sell-out on the internet - 24th May 2009
 * Roth, and the school chumz with attitude'' - Trying too hard to be street is in itself a mark of poshness - 24th May 2009
 * drinking is a male affliction'' - Though you might not know it from the photographs of girls in boob tubes vomiting onto the streets of Middle England, most commonplace drunkenness is the work of men. This is especially true after a certain age - 24th May 2009
 * Market was a right mess'' - Soulless councils have little respect for local markets - 17th May 2009
 * the wrong kind of role model'' - Jordan is a working-class girl with working-class fans. She wears her hair in a 'Croydon facelift' ponytail and has a daughter called Princess Tiaamii, yet it hasn't stopped her living the dream - 17th May 2009
 * cat: A little cuteness goes a long way'' - Cats are like babies: endlessly fascinating to their owners, enjoyable only in short bursts for everyone else - 17th May 2009
 * Southall's dream job could be a nightmare'' - A tropical island populated by love-struck honeymooners would be enough to drive anyone mad - 10th May 2009
 * women ruled the world...'' - The myth that women are the less aggressive sex is disproved every day. Harriet Harman should take note - 10th May 2009
 * Adonis is on the right tracks'' - It is easy to mock politicians for their detachment from real life, but at least Lord Adonis is making an effort - 10th May 2009
 * over Devon? It won’t be the same'' - good weather will ruin the traditional British summer - 3rd May 2009
 * dangers of peaking too soon'' - the precocious child is almost always condemned to a lifetime of anti-climax - 3rd May 2009
 * Jessica Parker deserves sympathy, not scorn'' - The news that the actress and her husband Matthew Broderick are expecting twins by a surrogate mother – after years of trying more conventional methods – has provoked a mixture of reactions, all of them ungenerous - 3rd May 2009
 * suffers Wilting Poppy Syndrome'' - In Britain we often complain of Tall Poppy Syndrome, but it seems to me kinder than its American version - 19th April 2009
 * Celebs saving the world'' - Have you been invited to Sting and Trudie's "social-consciousness" party? No, nor me – though I can't understand why - 19th April 2009
 * NHS fails again, and again it seems nobody is to blame'' - Whistleblowers like Margaret Haywood have exposed a system in which accountability slips from one person to the next, and eventually disappears - 19th April 2009
 * Madonna should have Mercy'' - Madonna may be rich, white, bossy and veiny, but that's no reason to presume she wouldn't make a good mother for a needy Malawian child - 5th April 2009
 * child's speech is still a class issue'' - 'I can tell you’re an educated person,’ taxi drivers tell me - 29th March 2009
 * unspoken truth about our language'' - The Sri Lankan postmaster who banned customers who could not speak English has taken an important stand - 22nd March 2009
 * most pernicious export - the prom'' - Dinner dances for teenagers encourage unwholesome obsessions for all involved - 22nd March 2009
 * whip up a fuss about cream and butter?'' - Joyless nutritionists should leave the likes of Nigella Lawson alone - 15th March 2009
 * cinema's the place for a little mischief'' - Children learn valuable life lessons at the cinema - we forget that at our peril - 7th March 2009
 * Basham makes a career of not having a job'' - The new breed of anti-feminists recommend the simple life for women - but do they live it themselves - 1st March 2009
 * decision to let passengers use mobile phones doesn't bother me at all'' - careless talk enriches lives and can brighten up a journey - 21st February 2009
 * Sarkozy's seduction technique shows typical French flair'' - France's first couple put the Blairs - and the British - to shame with their flamboyant flirtation - 15th February 2009
 * snow – and a frosty husband'' - Last week's weather created a chasm between those who loved it and those who loathed it - 8th February 2009
 * a Cockney jury to teach me a lesson'' - Jury service taught me to do justice to my peers - 1st February 2009
 * thin line between junk and treasure'' - Compulsive rubbish hoarders may cause rat infestations, but there is something cold-hearted in the way we tackle them - 25th January 2009
 * the poor little Richmond kids'' - Are children who live in London's elysian suburbs really Britain's unhappiest? Don't be ridiculous - 11th January 2009
 * that waitress has your number'' - The invisible people - such as the French check-out girl turned author - are taking their revenge - 4th January 2009
 * Day shoppers are noble but I can't face it, sorry Gordon Brown'' - Countrymen – and women – I applaud your patriotism. On Boxing Day morning, while we feebler souls were still in our pyjamas, picking the icing off the Stöllen cake, the great British masses were doing their bit for Queen and country at the sales - 28th December 2008
 * the generation game has never been so much fun'' - A new scheme that throws young and old together under one roof has lessons for us all - 21st December 2008
 * your tiny alien the space to be itself'' - Sometimes, the cleverest people are also the silliest. You only need to glance at Sally Adams to see that she is an academic - 7th December 2008
 * rage, deceit: just another day'' - The writers of Anchorman - the 2004 Will Ferrell comedy about newsreaders gone bad - must be cursing their creative timidity - 30th November 2008
 * we created so many little monsters'' - we all know by now, from watching Supernanny, the proper way to bring up children - 23rd November 2008
 * energy conservation leaves me cold'' - The young talk about saving the planet, the old are better at it - 16th November 2008
 * inner ugliness of makeover shows'' - It is marvellously apt that the Channel 4 makeover show 10 Years Younger has chosen to replace its presenter with a younger model - 9th November 2008
 * Brown's head explodes in East Sussex'' - 2nd November 2008
 * mental over mind sports'' - As Britain's athletic victories were celebrated, another national triumph was unfolding - 19th October 2008
 * Burnham was right about libraries'' - Local libraries can give us what we really want: not scholarship, but friendship - 12th October 2008
 * my happy marriage secret: avoid romance'' - 5th October 2008
 * teeth? My mouth stays shut'' - chewing over the American obsession with dental perfection - 28th September 2008
 * milk, how very unnatural'' - how is it that mother's milk becomes repugnant to us in later life? - 21st September 2008
 * Brothers vs Russell Brand'' - In the UK, conspicuous piety and pop credibility seldom mix - 14th September 2008
 * up the radio and give me some peace'' - A new survey claims that the average Briton enjoys "only" an hour a day of tranquillity - 7th September 2008
 * through the glass ceiling'' - A payslip hide all sorts of different truths, about our likeability, talent and timing; are we ready to speak those truths, let alone hear them? - 24th August 2008
 * Genealogists are barking up the wrong tree - 3rd August 2008
 * Diets don't last; discontent does - 27th July 2008
 * Being single is no fun for Tracey Emin - 20th July 2008
 * Too late to flee to Alberta - 6th July 2008
 * There is no law against photographing children - 29th June 2008
 * Spending time at Bluewater - 22nd June 2008
 * My thoughts have strayed to adultery - 15th June 2008
 * Big Brother has got so much smaller - 8th June 2008
 * Caught in the grandparent trap - 1st June 2008
 * How I score on the Marital Ratings Scale - 18th May 2008
 * Children can't be managed by Blackberr - 11th May 2008
 * The human cost of driving - 4th May 2008
 * Don't be bullied into home birth - 27th April 2008
 * It's tough being brought up by beginners - 20th April 2008
 * Dealing with the servant problem - 13th April 2008
 * Old devil could still make the perfect godfather - 6th April 2008
 * What a shame that people no longer want to say 'I do'. I did - 30th March 2008
 * Beware the Flashback Butt Lifting Boxer - 23rd March 2008
 * The psychedelic world of motherhood - 9th March 2008



The Independent:
Column name: Jemima Lewis (regular column ended November 2007)

Column remit: Society, Culture (esp. issues of identity and womens's issues)

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Role: Commentator

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Email: [mailto:jemima.lewis@virgin.net jemima.lewis@virgin.net]

Website: Independent.co / Jemima Lewis (archive)

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Day published: Saturday

Regularity: Weekly

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Articles:

 * It's up to us to tame our little barbarians - Children have an almost primeval instinct for bigotry, whatever their background - 15th March 2008



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