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	SECOND EDITION NOW IN STOCK! Idler 43: Back to the Land £21.95
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Idler 45: The Utopia Issue Featuring Louis Theroux £25.00	Bill Drummond - 100 (Limited Edition 1000 copies) Exclusive to The Idler Academy Bill Drummond - 100 Limited Edition Hardback £15.00	English Grammar Course with Chloe Gwynne Single Lesson Reduced Price for Members and Concessions £20.00	English Grammar Course with Chloe Gwynne Single Lesson £25.00
English Grammar Course with Chloe Gwynne Whole Course Reduced Price for Members and Concessions £100.00	English Grammar Course with Chloe Gwynne Whole Course £130.00	Ukulele Course Part Two with Danny Wootton Eight week course. Starts Monday 14 May £175.00	An Introduction to Vedic Maths: Single Lesson Member and Concession Rate Single Lesson Member Rate £20.00
An Introduction to Vedic Maths: Member and Concession Rate 9 week course starts Tuesday 15 May £130.00	An Introduction to Vedic Mathematics: Single Lesson One lesson £25.00	An Introduction to Vedic Mathematics 9 week course starts Tuesday 15th May £150.00	Ampera We're Electric Limited Edition £12.99

About The Idler

The Idler is an 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 …

From the Archives

stevenson "An idle mind is a questioning, sceptical mind. Hence it is a mind not too bound up with ephemeral things, as the minds of workers are. The idler, then, is somebody who separates himself from his occupation: there are many people scarcely conscious of living except in the exercise of some conventional occupation." Idle Idols: Robert Louis Stevenson