Hadley Freeman Talk Rescheduled

Hadley Freeman’s talk has been rescheduled to Tuesday 18th June and a few more tickets have come available.  Click here to buy one.…

A Revolution in Retail: Tom Hodgkinson on why shopkeepers are the real anarchists

CLICK HERE to read Tom Hodgkinson’s column in the Independent on Sunday today on why the petty bourgeois are the real revolutionaries of our time.…

The Moneyless Manifesto Book Launch

We at the The Idler Academy were recently privileged to host the launch of Mark Boyle’s book, The Moneyless Manifesto (Permanent Publications).

Here is Idler editor Tom Hodgkinson introducing the book with a rendition on the ukulele of the …

Link: The Science of Idling

Thank you to American publisher and activist Bernard Marszalek for alerting us to these two pieces on the science of idling from Nature.

The first tells us what the brain does when it’s idling, and the answer is, …