Jemima Lewis: Be your own English tutor – keep a diary

Published: 03 November 2007

When it comes to language, there is no better teacher than your own mistakes

Jemima Lewis: Why can't the British be more like the Poles?

Published: 27 October 2007

The most unusual aspect of their invasion is that it has aroused as much self-loathing as it has loathing

Jemima Lewis: Is a lonely life inevitable when I have my baby?

Published: 20 October 2007

New motherhood obliges you once again to bare your thin skin to the glare of public scrutiny

Jemima Lewis: I've seen the future in my grandmother's plight

Published: 13 October 2007

It's a terrifying prospect: a million centenarians by 2074, with half of them suffering from dementia

Jemima Lewis: Our pets reflect our lingering love of the wild

Published: 06 October 2007

I have grown accustomed to waking up with my nose clamped between his sharp, fishy teeth

Jemima Lewis: It is our own fault we are sad and stressed

Published: 29 September 2007

The other night I woke up sobbing. This doesn't often happen, and when it does it's usually because I have had a satisfyingly mawkish dream about mourners thronging to my funeral. On this occasion, however, something quite new and unwelcome disturbed my slumbers: my to-do list.

Jemima Lewis: Why are spinsters singled out like this?

Published: 08 September 2007

The modern singleton remains, whatever her professional achievements, an object of pity

Jemima Lewis: Political principles and pregnancy rarely mix

Published: 25 August 2007

I wouldn't exactly call myself a good socialist, but there are one or two leftish articles of faith to which I cling. Chief among these is an ardent belief in the provision of free healthcare for all.

Jemima Lewis: The best inheritance is not a monetary one

Published: 18 August 2007

All my flakiest friends are people who inherited just enough money to get by without having to work

Jemima Lewis: Pictures of innocence, destroyed by paranoia

Published: 11 August 2007

Taking snaps in public places is now widely perceived to be a dubious, if not illegal, activity

Jemima Lewis: We've created a genealogical nightmare

Published: 21 July 2007

We need to acknowledge the emotional costs of our reproductive freedom

Jemima Lewis: You can't beat a traditional liberal education

Published: 14 July 2007

If you understand physics, you can (and will) wire up a digital home entertainment system

Jemima Lewis: The lessons of George Melly's final years

Published: 07 July 2007

At the age of 80, despite deafness and dementia, he had not succumbed to the clichés of old age

Jemima Lewis: America could do with a few feral beasts

Published: 30 June 2007

There is a thin line between respectable and supine, and US journalism is on the wrong side

Jemima Lewis: Let your inner prancing yokel roam free

Published: 23 June 2007

Morris dancing is not like other hobbies. It inspires a unique mixture of horror, hilarity and bewilderment

Jemima Lewis: Will I, like Katie, be the enemy of my success?

Published: 09 June 2007

The truth is that women of child-bearing and child-rearing age pose a problem for employers

Jemima Lewis: The case for abortion is riddled with dishonesty

Published: 02 June 2007

The fear is pro-life fundamentalism might be another bad American habit that we can't help picking up

Jemima Lewis: Let's raise a glass to Baby's good health

Published: 26 May 2007

Common sense suggests getting drunk cannot be good for a thumb-length work in progress

Jemima Lewis: Pity the inarticulate MySpace generation

Published: 19 May 2007

It is hard to know whether to be more depressed by their linguistic poverty or their blind aggression

Jemima Lewis: The greatest nation on earth? I don't think so

Published: 12 May 2007

My people, whose achievements and institutions were supposed to be the envy of the world, seemed glum

Jemima Lewis: Remembrance of times of the month past

Published: 05 May 2007

It was the moment at which we learned to tame humiliation by turning it into a funny story

Jemima Lewis: Don't be fooled... most women want marriage

Published: 24 February 2007

If marriage is to survive in this onanistic age, it must be presented as a pleasure, not a virtue

Jemima Lewis: We didn't do lap-dancing in my student days

Published: 17 February 2007

Today, a woman's education is not complete until she has learned to disport herself around a pole

Jemima Lewis: Passion, not prize money, will save the world

Published: 10 February 2007

The best scientists - like the best artists - are strikingly impervious to material greed

Jemima Lewis: Why British men make good husbands

Published: 03 February 2007

Women have a weakness for ideals. We find a man who is almost perfect, then fixate on the almost
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