Tim Dowling

Tim Dowling: Help! We have no internet and I really do have work to do

I’ve got a date with one of the country’s worst-rated customer service departments. What could possibly go right?

I’m sitting at my computer when a link refuses to load, leaving me with a white screen. I click on several of the 37 other windows I have open. None of them loads. I go and find my wife in front of her computer.

“Are you having trouble with the internet?” I say.

Dear David Beckham: as you approach 50, remember this – there is still time to turn your life around | Tim Dowling

I’ve learned that at 40, you can set a course. If you’re not there by 50, there’s still time. By 60 the die is cast, and you know it

Happy birthday, David Beckham. Earlier this year, Beckham, still impressively bronzed, toned and sculpted, was modelling his own line of underwear. Today, he turns 50. It would be fair to say he looks good for it.