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This Little Piggie Stayed at Home
16 September 2008
Idler editor Tom Hodgkinson is giving a sermon entitled Love Thy Neighbour at London’s Horse Hospital, as a guest of the newly established School of Life.
The sermon takes place at 11.30am on Sunday 26 October, and you can click here for more details.
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Take control of your life and reclaim your right to be idle.
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The Idler is a bi-annual, book-shaped magazine that campaigns against the work ethic. It was founded in 1993 by Tom Hodgkinson and his friend Gavin Pretor-Pinney. The intention of the magazine is to return dignity to the art of loafing, to make idling into something to aspire towards rather than reject. As well as providing a radical and thought-provoking read, the Idler is also very funny. MORE …
"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." Will Self: Idler 2
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