Pippa Bailey

Pippa Bailey is assistant editor and writer at the New Statesman.

I am content to be (temporarily) alone – bar the nightmares

The truth is, there’s pleasure in solitude.

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By Pippa Bailey, Michael Prodger, Finn McRedmond and Megan Gibson

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According to ChatGPT, my writing is typified by obsessions with pizza, lattes and “semantics”.

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The freedoms that academy schools enjoy could be curtailed.

I find plectrums all over the house, and have to move at least one instrument to get into my…

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The public philosopher on open relationships, free speech and why protests fail.

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Also featuring: The Grammar of Angels by Edward Wilson-Lee and The Shape of Things Unseen by Adam Zeman.

By Michael Prodger, Megan Kenyon and Pippa Bailey

The confident and provocative film offers style over connection.

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Also featuring Pub by Philip Howell and Runaway Horses by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini.

By Michael Prodger, Finn McRedmond and Pippa Bailey

Is the Church experiencing an existential crisis?