Tim Dowling
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 25
- Latest publication
- Sep 14, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for The Guardian
- Top 1K sites
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- Jul 4, 2026
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Phones are the new cigarettes: why restaurants are discouraging and even banning them (opens the original)
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Would you hand in your phone at the door in exchange for a free bottle of wine? One restaurateur has tried that – and there are now many other gambits that are encouraging us to connect Age: Their provenance is considerable; their time is now. Appearance: Groups of people eating together, talking together and laughing together, while also twitching slightly from withdrawal. So this is specifically to do with banning phones in restaurants? Restaurants and bars, yes. Hardly a new thing, is it? No.
Tim Dowling: how not to interview eminent scientists – a control freak’s guide - AOL (opens the original)
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The transition to owning an electric car is in its final phase: our electricity supplier is set to install a smart meter in conjunction with a special tariff that will allow us to charge the car cheaply in the dead of night. After that, all I have to do is live long enough to see a return on my considerable investment. In the meantime – as sometimes happens in the course of my work – I need to interview some eminent scientists. In my experience eminent scientists are easy to reach – they tend to
Tim Dowling: how not to interview eminent scientists â a control freakâs guide (opens the original)
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It was supposed to be a meeting between a great mind and mine. Instead, I was plunged into darkness and did some swearing The transition to owning an electric car is in its final phase: our electricity supplier is set to install a smart meter in conjunction with a special tariff that will allow us to charge the car cheaply in the dead of night. After that, all I have to do is live long enough to see a return on my considerable investment. In the meantime â as sometimes happens in the course o
Tim Dowling: my twice-daily baths are giving me a sinking feeling (opens the original)
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It’s raining in our hallway. Could my louche bathing regime be behind the showers? August is the traditional time for something major to go wrong with my house. So I’m not surprised, as I’m getting dressed one morning, to hear the middle one shouting something about it raining in the hallway. “What?” I say, standing on the landing with a shirt half pulled over my head. “What do you mean?” I look down to see that water is indeed falling from the ceiling in a rain-like fashion, leaving a giant pud
Tim Dowling: my twice-daily baths are giving me a sinking feeling - AOL (opens the original)
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August is the traditional time for something major to go wrong with my house. So I’m not surprised, as I’m getting dressed one morning, to hear the middle one shouting something about it raining in the hallway. “What?” I say, standing on the landing with a shirt half pulled over my head. “What do you mean?” I look down to see that water is indeed falling from the ceiling in a rain-like fashion, leaving a giant puddle on the floorboards near the front door. “That ain’t good,” I say. I go upstairs
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