When his head is not in the clouds, the author runs a magazine for dilettantes called the Idler.

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The Bad Grammar Awards is hosted by the The Idler Academy.

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Tom Hodgkinson, editor of The Idler magazine, told the Today programme's Sarah Montague that, after receiving articles written for his magazine containing numerous examples of bad grammar, he "started finding it quite annoying".

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Ventura, a retired immigrant laborer, circulates among his children including a recovering drug addict, a beggar, a museum guard, and a mystical idler who is the last holdout in the crumbling slum as he negotiates with the authorities over his impending move to a modern, antiseptic new apartment.

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