Laziness works. And the simple way to incorporate its health benefits into your life is simply to take a nap.

The world's richest half billion people - that's about seven per cent of the global population - are responsible for fifty per cent of the world's emissions.

It will soon be difficult to put up a shelf without a degree in shelf putting up.

Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure.

What is required as we travel towards full unemployment is not new legislation but a gradual change of mental attitude, a shift in values. As our taste for idling grows, we will refuse to work for old-fashioned bosses who demand a five-day, 40-hour, nine-to-five type week, or worse.

I think it's good to look at how people lived before, and then take the best bits of that culture and try to mix it in with your own.

As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women as it would give them freedom from the domestic grind. Now it seems work is a form of slavery, undertaken out of apparent compulsion rather than choice.