What is the Idler?
The Idler is a magazine founded in 1993 with the intention of exploring alternative ways of working and living.
It is our conviction that laziness has been unjustly criticised by modern society, and that it deserves to have its good conscience returned to it and defended as an essential component of a happy life.
Our intention is to produce a publication that is entertaining, thought-provoking and full of great ideas for living.
In short, we want to improve your life.
We put on regular parties, gigs and readings where Idler readers and writers get together, and offer t-shirts and mugs for the full Idler lifestyle.
To subscribe to the Idler, click here. For ��30, you will receive four issues (worth ��40), sent direct to your home. Subscribers also benefit from a hand-printed certificate confirming that they have joined the Grand Order of Idlers.
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We hope you’ll join us. Take it easy.
Tom Hodgkinson
"All pubs are terrible places now. I mean you wouldn't have known a decent pub at your age, I shouldn't think. They didn't have fucking music. They didn't have cigarette machines. They didn't sell the chemical beer. They were for proper drinkers, not for fucking yobs, hooligans. I want to go into a pub and meet interesting people, not to look at a lot of people sitting on the floor drinking out of tins. I can't stand it. Mostly people in your age group. Ruin pubs."