Pippa Bailey

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

Russell Brand’s weird Christian comeback

A cynic might say that his conversion is not really a conversion at all.

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By Pippa Bailey, George Monaghan, Michael Prodger and Finn McRedmond

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Also featuring Stone Circles by Colin Richards and Vicki Cummings and The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective…

By Michael Prodger, Pippa Bailey and Megan Gibson

I pled with the universe, God, and any other higher powers I could think of. Finally, M— and I…

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Can the next archbishop of Canterbury unite a divided Church?

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Also featuring Sing Like Fish by Amorina Kingdon and Tracks on the Ocean by Sara Caputo.

By Michael Prodger, Pippa Bailey and George Monaghan

The writer on Keir Starmer, Labour’s “grim” inheritance and his desire to reinvent the past.

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The film stars former inmates playing themselves as they stage a performance on the inside.

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Assessment has eclipsed learning in an education system that fails students and worsens inequality.

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In a landlord’s market, with intense competition from fellow renters, you’re damned whatever you do.

By Pippa Bailey