Articles
Jeremy Paxman: full-length video
Conversations
A long, rambling and undisciplined conversation between Jeremy Paxman and Tom Hodgkinson
Interview with David Hockney
Tom Hodgkinson | Conversations
“For fifty years, I have done exactly what I wanted to do every day”
Video: Jeremy Paxman says, “Every office should have a hammock”
Idle Talk
The journalist and author reveals a reflective side
Lucy Cooke on the amazing sloth
Lucy Cooke | Zoology
The BBC zoologist defends the much-maligned sloth, the slowest but cutest of animals
News: the lazy live longer, say scientists
Idler staff | News
Study of sparrows finds hard workers die young
Idle Thought for the Day from Robert Louis Stevenson
Idle Thoughts
“PERPETUAL devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained
Old Word of the Day: Drumble
DRUMBLE: To be sluggish; to be confused in doing anything; to mumble. It was
Michael Palin in Conversation with Tom Hodgkinson
Tom Hodgkinson | Conversations
Tom Hodgkinson writes: “Here is the full-length film of the hour-long interview I did
The Idler No 1, April 1758
Dr Johnson's Idler
Here is Dr Johnson’s first “Idler” column. It was published in the Gentleman’s Magazine.
“Vacui
“To My Enemies” by Bert Meyers
Louis Theroux | Patron's Poem
Louis Theroux chooses our Poem for the Day
A few of my favourite books: Viv Albertine
Books
The former Slits guitarist and now best-selling writer chooses her top five books of all time
A sudden rainstorm: ah, is this not happiness?
Jin Shengtan | Comment
The first of 33 happy moments from a 17th century Chinese poet
Online Course: How to be Idle with Tom Hodgkinson
Online course
Anxious, overworked, underpaid? Discover the routes to revolutionising your everyday life
Interview with Terence McKenna from 1993
Tom Hodgkinson | Conversations
An account of a conversation with the magic mushroom guru
Perfect Day: a lie-in, blackberry-picking and some light part-time work
Jason Palmer | Idle Thoughts
Readers describe a great day’s idling
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