Aimee Meade

Senior Assistant Opinion Editor at The i Paper

Senior Assistant Opinion Editor @theipaper 📧 [email protected]

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Articles

There are no longer any excuses to listen to Kanye West

1 day 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

2 days 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

2 days 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 days 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

6 days 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 week 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

2 weeks 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

2 weeks 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.
Arron Banks proves it - Reform is still a circus

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

For the past year, Nigel Farage has been a man on a mission. His task: to turn Reform UK from a shambolic, amateur assortment of political rebels into an efficient, professional political party capable of winning power on a national scale. Alongside party chair Zia Yusuf, Farage has been relentlessly trying to tighten up all areas of Reform’s operations, from candidate vetting to fundraising, communications to campaigning.
It's time for Keir Starmer to prove he's a real football fan

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

When most of us slack off work to watch a football match, it’s usually a case of firing up a dodgy stream in the toilets or claiming you can’t make that Wednesday evening debrief because you’ve had a “plumbing emergency” – a little white lie here and there in favour of your tribal allegiance.