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Tom Hodgkinson

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Tom Hodgkinson is a writer and the editor of The Idler.

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Culture

Could a ragtag bunch of modern philosophers recreate ‘The School of Athens’ outside St Paul’s?

UK Politics

Campaigners call for 30-hour working week to allow for healthier,

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Tom Hodgkinson: People crave adventure and romance, and they're rarely

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Tom Hodgkinson: When the dirham was invented 1,400 years ago, it was

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Tom Hodgkinson: In London, God has all the best schools - and so it is

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Tom Hodgkinson: The old educational ways are not remotely Gradgrindian

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Tom Hodgkinson: The geekocracy are the 21st-century equivalent of the

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Tom Hodgkinson: We would all like to float around on a cloud of

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Tom Hodgkinson: As I have grown older, I have started to revert to

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Tom Hodgkinson: 'The only booming businesses are booze and payday

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Tom Hodgkinson: 'I never learnt to 'ollie', but my son sure as hell

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Tom Hodgkinson: Who arrives at the door when the pig has been killed?

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Tom Hodgkinson: Who arrives at the door when the pig has been killed?

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Tom Hodgkinson: Who arrives at the door when the pig has been killed?

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For music lovers: John Cusack with his vinyl collection in 'High Fidelity'
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Vinyl demand: One in the eye for the digital prophets

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Tom Hodgkinson: 'My current car cost us £350, but it is not £29,650

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Tom Hodgkinson: The objection to a shorter working day is snobbish -

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Tom Hodgkinson: 'Having successfully quit the rat race, I now find

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Tom Hodgkinson: 'Having successfully quit the rat race, I now find

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Tom Hodgkinson: Lusty friars trick credulous ladies into shagging them

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Tom Hodgkinson: Bore them round the campfire? You ought to be ashamed

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Today's middle class feel oppressed in the same way as Marx’s

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Do less. That way you might end up doing more

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Tom Hodgkinson: 'Jeremy Clarkson howled with horror and crawled under

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Tom Hodgkinson: 'Our target market - people who can't be bothered -

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Tom Hodgkinson: They were expecting a carefree soul; instead they

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Tom Hodgkinson: The best thing to do after learning new information is

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Tom Hodgkinson: 'Our target market - people who can't be bothered -

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Tom Hodgkinson: They were expecting a carefree soul; instead they

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Tom Hodgkinson: The best thing to do after learning new information is

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Tom Hodgkinson: 'Our steady supply of eggs means we always have some

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Tom Hodgkinson: 'Our steady supply of eggs means we always have some

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Tom Hodgkinson: 'Professional grammarians are desperate to be down

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Tom Hodgkinson: 'The sensible option would be to operate from a

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Tom Hodgkinson: 'After two years of neglect, I've remembered how

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Tom Hodgkinson: 'Every time we upload a thought or a photo, we give

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Tom Hodgkinson: 'Every time we upload a thought or a photo, we give

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Tom Hodgkinson: Can we wipe out the aberrant apostrophe?

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Tom Hodgkinson: Bookishness can save the criminally minded

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Tom Hodgkinson: In the face of no-phone situation my rage turned into

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Tom Hodgkinson: Education needn't be so geared to jobs

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Tom Hodgkinson: Beautiful writing feeds the soul

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Tom Hodgkinson: What sort of swine would steal my food?

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Tom Hodgkinson: 'My inner bourgeois soul has re-emerged'

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Tom Hodgkinson: The boys seem happiest surrounded by screens

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Tom Hodgkinson: 'Throw away that guilt-inducing clock'

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Tom Hodgkinson: We need to take education slowly

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Tom Hodgkinson: Shopkeeper are the real revolutionaries!

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Tom Hodgkinson: Shopkeeper are the real revolutionaries!

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Tom Hodgkinson: 'The machine told me the flight was closed'

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Tom Hodgkinson: How allotments could save us £23bn

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Tom Hodgkinson: 'Instead of helping, we merely retweet'

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Once we grew all our own vegetables, now I hang my head in shame at

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Once we grew all our own vegetables, now I hang my head in shame at

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Embrace error – it makes us human

George Hinchliffe, left, gives Tom Hodgkinson a masterclass in the ukulele
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Ukulele masterclass: Four strings and a jolly good time

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Tom Hodgkinson: ‘Waggling our hands in the air felt right’

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Tom Hodgkinson: Tolstoy has been popping up a lot…

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Tom Hodgkinson: How grammar can keep you out of jail

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Tom Hodgkinson: 'As a family, we go to festivals. And work'

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Tom Hodgkinson: Why modern travel fills me with horror

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Tom Hodgkinson: 'Do women consider the ukulele sexy?'

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Tom Hodgkinson: 'A good bonfire still brings us together'

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Tom Hodgkinson: My own little mutiny on the bunting

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Reviews

The A303: Highway to the Sun, By Tom Fort

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The A303: Highway to the Sun, By Tom Fort

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Tom Hodgkinson: Why Shakespeare's pain is pure poetry

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Tom Hodgkinson: 'Pop music must be live if it is not to die'

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Tom Hodgkinson: The bohemian spirit is alive and well

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Tom Hodgkinson: Gardening beats Valium every time

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Tom Hodgkinson: Gardening beats Valium every time

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Tom Hodgkinson: Bring back the spirit of the troubadours!

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Tom Hodgkinson: 'Maybe I'll postpone the weeding for a bit'

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Tom Hodgkinson: Why love isn't as simple as we think

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Tom Hodgkinson: 'Would Aristotle have used Twitter?'

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The Story of Crass, by George Berger

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Lives of the English Rakes by Fergus Linnane

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John Wilkes: The scandalous father of civil liberty by Arthur H Cash

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The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett by Richard Ingrams

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Letter: Ethic of idleness

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UK

Saab owners stir new discord in Arcadia: Tom Hodgkinson finds

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BUSKING / Exiles from main street: Must shopping malls be sterile and

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Balalaika breaks down the British reserve

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COMEDY / Dogged devotion: Ben Miller's bizarre obsession with John

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We can fix it, they said: So who needs dentists? Tom Hodgkinson has

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We can fix it, they said: So who needs dentists? Tom Hodgkinson has

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