Idler
The Idler is a magazine and Academy helping people to slow down, have fun and live well. We produce a bi-monthly magazine and a range of brilliant online classes. Our members get the magazine and free access to an ever-expanding world of knowledge. Every Thursday we broadcast "A Drink with the Idler", an interview show featuring Tom Hodgkinson, editor of the Idler.
On the Mughal Empire | A Drink with Nandini Das
On How to Escape the Daily Grind | A Drink with Robert Wringham
On Why Thomas Aquinas Matters Now | A Drink with Oliver Keenan
Idler Festival 2025
On the Influence of Global Music | A Drink with Joe Boyd
On Rock, Roll, and Roxy | A Drink with Phil Manzanera
On What it Takes to Get Behind the Lens | A Drink with Chris Floyd
On How Technology Has Made Us What We Are | A Drink with Tom Chatfield
On Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience | A Drink with Lyndsey Stonebridge
On Graffiti in Eighteenth Century Britain | A Drink with Madeleine Pelling
On George Orwell’s five-year stint in Burma | A Drink with Paul Theroux
On Rest is Resistance | A Drink with Tricia Hersey
On Rap, Home and Hope in Modern Britain | A Drink with Aniefiok "Neef" Ekpoudom
A Drink with Sally Phillips
On the Revolutionary Temper | A Drink with Robert Darnton
On Big Caesars and Small Caesars | A Drink with Ferdinand Mount
On Writing and Failure | A Drink with Stephen Marche
On an Alternative History of the Romans | A Drink with Emma Southon
On Why Classical Music is Good for the Soul | A Drink with Georgia Mann
On how the English fared without a King | A Drink with Anna Keay
On Life, Living, Death and Dying | A Drink with Louise Winter
On his journey as a comedian | A Drink with Griff Rhys Jones.
The Internet Con of Big Tech | A Drink with Cory Doctorow
How can we take back our time? | A Drink with Guy Standing
On being Cancelled | A Drink with Eleanor Catton
On the Renaissance of Pilgrimage | A Drink with Guy Hayward
How we can Rewild Britain with Charlie Burrell and Isabella Tree
What happened to the English seaside? | A Drink with Madeleine Bunting
On Rediscovering Black Portraiture | A Drink with Peter Brathwaite
How can we actually connect with nature? | A Drink with Tristan Gooley