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From Recent Issues:
Take a look at these two pieces from the latest issue. Leave Them Alone: Tom Hodgkinson’s guide to responsible parenting for the lazy and our brilliant conversation with the laid-back Michael Palin.
Idler 37: Childish Things can be bought from Amazon or our own shop.
Free at Last: Former Viz editor, Chris Donald, on the Pleasures of retreating to the loo. From Idler 35, the War on Work.
Joanna Blythman. Dan Kieran goes to meet Joanna Blythman, the author of Shopped, the shocking power of British Supermarkets. From Idler 34, the Food Issue.
On Not Having a Career by Joan Bakewell. From Idler 34, the Food Issue.
Shopped: Confessions of a Female Shoplifter. Sarah Janes on the fun of stealing. From Idler 33, the Ladies of Leisure issue.
Sick of Shopping by Clare Pollard. From Idler 33, the Ladies of Leisure issue.
From Past Issues:
Conversations: Jeffrey Bernard From Idler 8.
Idle Idols: Lin Yutang, the apostle of loafing. From Idler 13.
Features: Fat and Poor, Pete Doherty’s mate, Max Carlish, on life as a slightly effeminate version of Giant Haystacks at the crusty fag end of the twentieth century. From Idler 25.
The Practical Idler: Diary of Arthur Smith, he knows all there is to know about doing nothing. From Idler 27.
Notes from the Couch: The Six Myths of TV Comedy. Sitcom Supremo Graham Linehan - co-writer of Father Ted, Big Train and Black Books - offers a handy guide to the mistakes we make when discussing sitcoms. From Idler 28.
"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."