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Tom Hodgkinson | Letter from the Editor
A stern note in the kitchen teaches Tom Hodgkinson a lesson… Read more
Charles Handy: Breaking Good
Charles Handy | Comment
Charles Handy on how getting broken can make you stronger… Read more
Book of the Week: The Radical Potter
Tristram Hunt | Books
Tristram Hunt on the Staffordshire craftsman Josiah Wedgwood… Read more
Why is Dante so inspiring?
Mark Vernon | Books
The reasons behind Dante’s seven centuries of cultural influence… Read more
Book of the Week: Think Like an Elf
Lauren Child | Books
It’s the triumphant return of Clarice Bean… Read more
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Emma Park | Idler Magazine
Wine, a tree and your beloved: what’s not to like?… Read more
Travel: Milestones of Britain
Rhiannon Batten | Idler Magazine
Rhiannon Batten hits the old ways… Read more
Book of the Week: Underland
Robert Macfarlane | Books
Deep time is radical, writes Robert Macfarlane… Read more
Merry-making in the country
Tom Hodgkinson | Letter from the Editor
Tom Hodgkinson finds a field full of merry-making … Read more
The irresistible rise of Oatly
Tom Hodgkinson | Letter from the Editor
How a Swedish company repackaged gruel… Read more
Interview: Youth meets Lee Scratch Perry
Youth | Interview
A tribute to the dub legend, from Idler #55, July 2017… Read more
Charles Handy: Delegation’s what you need
Charles Handy | Comment
Charles Handy on the value of devolving decision-making… Read more
Book of the Week: The Right to be Lazy
Paul Lafargue | Books
Fight for your licence to loaf, says Paul Lafargue… Read more
Happy Lammas from the Idler
Tom Hodgkinson | Letter from the Editor
We’re off to a festival
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Charles Handy: inventing a new life
Charles Handy | Comment
Charles Handy on the value of re-imagining your life’s story… Read more
Book of the Week: On Lying in Bed
G. K. Chesterton | Books
GK Chesterton’s essay on one of our favourite idle pursuits… Read more
Charles Handy: my new business idea
Charles Handy | Comment
Why not create a ‘library of experiences’?… Read more
Book of the Week: Better to Have Gone
Akash Kapur | Books
Akash Kapur’s story of love and tragedy in India’s utopian Auroville community… Read more
The trials and triumphs of off-grid camping
Tom Hodgkinson | Letter from the Editor
Tom Hodgkinson goes off-grid on the Welsh coast… Read more
Charles Handy: the truth about comb-overs
Charles Handy | Comment
Make life simple and tell the truth, says Charles Handy… Read more
Drugs and the work ethic
Tom Hodgkinson | Letter from the Editor
Tom Hodgkinson on Michael Pollan’s new book… Read more