Aimee Meade

Senior Assistant Opinion Editor at The i Paper

Senior Assistant Opinion Editor @theipaper 📧 [email protected]

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Articles

Pregnant women are being treated like criminals, with phones seized and homes searched

2 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Aimee Meade

When Nikki Packer was 41, she took abortion medicine at home in lockdown. While recovering in hospital, she was arrested, accused of having an unlawful abortion and transported to a police cell while still in pain. Under legislation introduced during Covid, abortion pills can be sent by post, but only for those who are up to 10 weeks pregnant. Packer was estimated to be 26 weeks along. If found guilty, she could have faced a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
Trump is getting fed up with Putin - not that the Russian President cares

3 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Aimee Meade

This Ukraine peace summit has not yet turned into the spectacular win Donald Trump hoped for. While Volodymyr Zelensky has travelled to Turkey, as suggested by Vladimir Putin last week, the Russian leader is nowhere to be seen. This meeting will not, therefore, provide a springboard to a Nobel Peace Prize which Trump so desperately craves, to match Barack Obama.
There are no longer any excuses to listen to Kanye West

3 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Aimee Meade

“I’m stunned,” my friend texted me as a snippet of a new Kanye West song dropped online. She didn’t mean it in a positive way. On Thursday, the thoroughly disgraced rapper – who now goes by Ye for short – released a new track titled “Heil Hitler”, which is also the main lyric of its chorus.
This book can help parents teach their kids about sex - and it's 50 years old

3 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Aimee Meade

Years ago a friend of mine working as a teacher in a large, mixed comprehensive drew the short straw and had to take one of the pubescent year groups for their big sex talk. My teacher friend got the girls, and duly stood before them rolling out the reproductive basics and issues like getting pregnant and ruining your life (though again, they don’t call it that these days) and then inviting questions from the floor. She took a few, then a few more about the strange world of sex.
Here comes the boldest change to immigration in decades - and the riskiest

3 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Aimee Meade

It’s a sign of the times that a party whose leadership hails from the realms of human rights lawyers and Labour centrists is about to undertake a U-turn which is going to make it sound like it has adopted the Fortress Britain vision it once disdained as parochial or even subliminally racist. Pre-briefing on the Immigration White Paper, which is due to be released on Monday, left us in no doubt about the tone.
I spoke to Lily Phillips about sex - it has made me oddly hopeful for Gen Z

3 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Aimee Meade

I’m feeling a bit naïve at the moment, and for a journalist that’s the last thing I want to feel. The reason? Until last weekend I’d never heard of the phrase “body count” except in connection with the casualties of war. It means something very different to Gen Z, as a quick glance at TikTok will confirm. In short, your “body count” is the number of people you’ve had sex with.
Trump’s UK deal confirms it - he’s weaker than he admits

4 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Aimee Meade

Behind the braggadocio, the hyperbole and the over the top salesmanship of Donald Trump, there lurks a President who is intensely concerned about his declining popularity and falling ratings. He is incredibly thin-skinned and needed to do something to dispel the growing idea that he is – the very worst thing in the world, in his imagination – a loser.
I bin my kids' artwork - and I don't feel bad

1 month ago | inews.co.uk | Aimee Meade

There’s a memory box for each of my two children in the loft, carefully labelled and filled with genuinely special keepsakes – tags from their time in hospital, nursery and school photos and a highly curated selection of their artwork. Not many. Just the ones that mean something or were so unintentionally hilarious, I can’t bear to part with them. The rest? They mostly end up in the recycling.
I'm a millennial and I'm sick of being called 'cringe' by Gen Z

1 month ago | inews.co.uk | Aimee Meade

I’m a millennial and I am, and have always been, what Gen Zs now call “cringe”. For example, in the 2000s, I penned first-person essays in my diary, I wore a beret to school, I covered my books with pictures of Orlando Bloom and memorised facts about him. This would make me a “simp” – slang for someone who embarrassingly shows excessive sympathy and attention toward another person. Love is embarrassing. I learned that my generation is considered deeply uncool on social media.
Riots would be a gift to Trump - and propel him into an indefinite presidency

1 month ago | inews.co.uk | Aimee Meade

There’s a rumbling in America. Some radical, street-fighting men have emerged to challenge the Maga movement and Donald Trump’s ruthless power-grab. Exhibit A. “We are really in danger right now and we have to rally the grassroots to take back the destiny of America!” Sorry, that was Al Gore, the former vice-president and environmentalist, speaking on a television talk show last weekend. “I think there may be a rising demand for another president in his late seventies,” he joked.