Stewart Enquiry: 4
Part 4: And he’s off…
STEWART ENQUIRY ON TOUR
Stewart Enquiry: 3
Part 3: And he’s off…
The third instalment of Jock Scot’s tale of Stewart Enquiry, the most outrageous racing fan in the country, kicks off with Enquiry setting fire to the Union Jack at the Cheltenham Festival
Stewart Enquiry: 2
Part 2: RACING DEMON
Jock Scot continues the shocking tale of racing’s most debauched acolyte, Stewart Enquiry
ON THE MIDNIGHT RUN
Hungry, desperate alone; MATTHEW DE ABAITUA ventures out for a Ginsters and steps into the alternative reality of the all-night garage.
Stewart Enquiry: 1
A VERY BAD DAY AT THE RACES, INDEED
Jock Scot witnesses a bout of bad behaviour worthy of the late great Jeffrey Bernard
MY STUPID LIFE
Confessions of utter idiocy, including a doomed scheme to use bubble-wrap as a sleeping bag, by GREG ROWLAND.
DIARY of ARTHUR SMITH
He’s got a lovely voice, ARTHUR SMITH. And he knows all there is to know about doing nothing. Taken from Idler 27
LADY OF LEISURE
Bathtime with Zoe Ball
We found the lovely Zoe Ball relaxing in her new bathroom and asked her intimate questions about her ablutions. Photography and interview by Charlotte Baker Wilbraham. Taken from Idler 20, Winter 1997
THE KIDS WENT CRAZY
The Idler’s Christmas party, starring Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction, was a riot. Matthew De Abaitua reports. Webcasts, courtesy of Red Leader Industries, can be found at the foot of the page
PET DEATHS
THEY JUST COME APART IN YOUR HANDS
I’m interested in your pets. I want true stories about how your pets, or the pets of your friends, met their end. Submit all pet death, or pet near-death stories to theidlers@idler.co.uk
A butterfly in the garden
The story behind proto-metal band Iron Butterfly’s “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida”, the serial killer’s tune of choice. By ANDREW MALE
EIGHT OUT OF TEN CATS SHOULD WEAR WHISKERS
JOHNNY ACTON calls for the return of the moustache
“Daddy, there’s a man at the door with a moustache” “Tell him I’ve already got one.” (Traditional)
WHICH? GETAWAY CAR
Bruce Reynolds, architect of the Great Train Robbery, tells us which are the best cars for making a swift retreat.
He was talking to Matthew De Abaitua
BEHOLD THE SPLENDOUR OF THE CRISP
RALPH SHARANSKY delves into the hidden history of the wondrous dried potato snack
Visions of Albion
From the Kinks (left) to Van Morrison, pop music occasionally tries to reach an essential truth about England. By RICHARD VINE
Flaneurs
In 1840’s Paris, it was regarded as the height of cool to take your tortoise for a walk. This century, German thinker Walter Benjamin took up the cause of the flaneurs. Mark Ffytche joins his celebration of the city slackers.
"I do nothing and then I do something. But it's taken years of investigating idleness in all its forms to be able to achieve this. My discipline is borne out of concerted study of idleness."