Profile:
Full name: Robert Colvile
Area of interest: Media & Technology, Localism, Democratic engagement, Constitution & Democracy
Journals/Organisation: The Daily Telegraph
Email: robert.colvile@telegraph.co.uk
Personal website:
Website:
Blog: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/robert_colvile
Representation:
Networks: http://twitter.com/rcolvile
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Articles:
- Friends: The One Where Dave Checks His Baggage - Dave bids farewell to Steve, in the latest episode of our political sitcom - 20th May 2012
- Teaching the dancers about flummery - The Olympic torch-lighting was a flop - 11th May 2012
- I dread the rain stopping - Hay fever sufferers love this wet weather - 3rd May 2012
- Friends: The One with Nick and Dave's Diary Mix-Up - An unpalatable lunch for Mr Clegg in the latest episode of our Westminster sitcom - 29th April 2012
- Friends: The One with the Guru’s Leaving Do - Dave is choked up by the departure of his old friend, in the latest episode of our political sitcom - 22nd April 2012
- I’ll give you a book, not God - World Book Night gets more people reading - 19th April 2012
- Shooting the undead makes me feel so alive - Chasing zombies shows us what we're made of - 12th April 2012
- I don’t get this obsession with cute and cuddly - The real problem is not Edinburgh Zoo's pandas but the values they embody - 5th April 2012
- The Alpine high life has made me too fat to fly - The spirit was willing but the flesh was weak, as an attempt to soar above the Alps fell flat - 22nd March 2012
- It’s not just that you’re wrong, Morrissey, you’re boring - The former Smiths singer has shown himself to be ill-informed about the Falklands and silly with his 'We Hate William and Kate' T-shirt - 8th March 2012
- A Raspberry that gives kids a taste for tinkering - All hail the Raspberry, the not-for-profit computer that revives a great British tradition - 1st March 2012
- Why Britain fails the maths test - We have left understanding maths to the experts - to our cost - 22nd February 2012
- For blue-sky thinkers, the footwear is optional - Why did Steve Hilton tell Michael Gove to fly with the 'upstart' Branson rather than 'fat cat' BA? - 21st February 2012
- Comfort food is gastronomic perfection - London, in particular, is in the grip of burger-mania - 7th February 2012
- The TripAdvisor hotels with a five-star critic in every room - As the TripAdvisor case demonstrates, we should all be wary of the wisdom of crowds - 3rd February 2012
- The most fun you can have with the telly on - If the programme's not entertaining, the tweets certainly are - 24th January 2012
- Kim Jong Un’s subjects are singing his praises - Cue more bowing and scraping as North Korea's new leader warms to the job - 17th January 2012
- Morris men in race row? It just doesn’t ring true - Crying 'racism' does no one any favours - 10th January 2012
- Is it my age? I’d rather wear old tweed than go to the sales - Most men will do absolutely anything to avoid stepping into a clothing store - 3rd January 2012
- Friends: The One with the Ginger Ninjas - Sam solves the problem of the New Year's party in the latest episode of our Westminster sitcom - 1st January 2012
- Friends: The One with Dave’s Christmas Crackers - Dave flexes his comedy muscles in the latest episode of our Westminster sitcom - 18th December 2011
- The stress of life takes its toll - As exhaustion forces a leading banker to take a rest, many people are asking whether life has ever been more exhausting - 3rd November 2011
- Friends: The One with the Great De-Murdoching - Dave and George have to write certain acquaintances out of the story, in the latest episode of our political sit-com - 10th July 2011
- Sport reveals all about the true alpha male - Even in a game of ping-pong, Cameron and Obama's will to win shone through - 26th May 2011
- The strange case of the disappearing day - Samoa's decision to skip 24 hours is in the finest tradition of temporal tinkering - 11th May 2011
- Friends: The One with the Election Results - Champagne corks are popping in Downing Street in the latest episode of our political sitcom - 8th May 2011
- David Miliband's best man speech: 'I hope you get everything you deserve, Ed' - David Miliband has once again lost out on a job thanks to his brother – this time as best man at Ed’s wedding - 31st March 2011
- Friends: The One With Craig Oliver's Dressing-Down - David Cameron is not amused by the performance of new communications director Craig Oliver - 13th March
- Friends: The One with Nick and Dave's Geography Lesson - The Egyptian crisis prompts Nick and Dave to brush up on their Middle Eastern geography in the latest episode of our political sitcom - 6th February 2011
- Watch out - our libraries are living on borrowed time - Libraries are not just another public service. They remind us that knowledge is to be cherished, both for its own sake and for its power to change lives - 21st January 2011
- Friends: The One with Nick Clegg's Seasonal Epiphany - Nick Clegg has a disturbing encounter, in a Dickensian instalment of our political sitcom by Robert Colvile - 26th December 2010
- Friends - The One with Nick's Big Internet Project - 28th November 2010
- God isn't dead – he has just turned green - The young don't need religion, as the environment gives them all the certainty they need - 6th October 2010
- Friends: The One with Dave and the Hairbrush - Dave is having trouble picking the perfect theme song in the latest episode of our political sit-com - 26th September 2010
- Now, at last, we can root out bad teachers - Naming and shaming those who fail our children is now a viable option - 20th September 2010
- The Boomers' bonanza has left precious little for the rest of us - We should be concerned about a society where opportunity is so profoundly determined by who your parents are - 1st September 2010
- Billy the Kid doesn't deserve a pardon - Apologising to the victims of the past is at best condescending - 9th August 2010
- The eBook may not have the last word - Electronic page-turners are all the rage– but do they really mean anything - 22nd July 2010
- The curse of Twitter - Derek Simpson is unrepentant about tweeting talks with BA – but being a twit can have dire consequences - 24th May 2010
- Is there nothing we won't watch? - After Google's conviction in Italy, Robert Colvile suggests that internet users hold the key to inappropriate content - 26th February 2010
- I'm guilty as hell, but I'm not sure why - Far from feeling less guilt than women, men are consumed by it from morning til night - 28th January 2010
- Relic of empire returns to centre stage - The once-derided Commonwealth could now wield real influence in the changing landscape of global politics - 26th November 2009
- Do we really want every cloud to have a silver iodide lining? - At the moment, geo-engineering is not on the agenda for Copenhagan - but one can see why scientists are arguing that we use it to tackle climate change, - 4th November 2009
- IT departments have a deadly new weapon in their war on workers - An American company has built up a model of how offices work, which studies the pattern of emails fired back and forth and then checks for deviant behaviour. Time to polish that CV - 1st September 2009
- Pity poor Beatrice for being a princess - Why do we force the Royal family to conform to the prejudices of the rest of society - 10th August 2009
- Who should get the swine flu vaccine? - One of Labour's favourite mantras is that being in government is about making the tough decisions. But when it comes to swine flu, a series of choices is approaching that may prove a matter of life and death - 30th July 2009
- How Britons became the kings of karaoke - We aren't as tight-lipped as our reputation suggests – and it could do us a world of good - 26th May 2009
- MPs' expenses: We, the people, are in revolt - Voters have been treated like peasants by our so-called betters for long enough, as the MPs' expenses scandal illustrates. Now it is time for a change - 21st May 2009 (see: MPs' expenses: summary)
- London: the best of cities, the worst of cities - a survey can't do justice to the wonder – and weirdness – of the capital - 5th May 2009
- This scandal smacks more of Capone than Cromwell - Damian McBride and his friends made a strategic error: they embraced the politics of the playground - 14th April 2009
- Not everyone wants to say 'I love you' in neon pink - Jade Goody's funeral was at once an utterly appropriate send-off, and an example of schmaltz in its purest form - 7th April 2009
- Google Street View's looking at you - The internet giant's new Street View function is great fun, but could it mean the end of privacy - 20th March 2009
- It is only bad timing that turns prophecy into comedy - A book entitled Damn, It Feels Good to be a Banker must have seemed a good idea six months ago - 21st February 2009
- Should Blue Peter survive? - As Blue Peter's ratings fall, and a Top Gear-style reinvention is mooted, our writer reveals what happened when he dared to suggest that the 50-year-old show shouldn't survive - 19th February 2009 (see below)
- Blue Peter: is it time to let it die? - The BBC should realise that the reason Blue Peter's ratings have collapsed is simple - nobody wants to watch it - 10th February 2009
- Why such grudging praise for Sebastian Barry at the Costa Book Awards? - When naming Sebastian Barry's 'The Secret Scripture' as Costa Book of the Year, the judges were surprisingly mealy-mouthed - 29th January 2009
- Tetris to treat trauma? It's just another reason why gaming is good for us - Video games aren't just about about goggled eyes and mindless violence - they're part of our education - 23rd January 2009
- Raise a glass to tomorrow's high street - Retailers can emerge stronger from the current crisis - but only if they adapt - 2nd January 2009
- Why the whole world is in a Twitter - When Mike Wilson used the social-networking site Twitter to tell the world his plane had crashed, he was demonstrating what many already knew - that for a growing number of people, twittering is becoming a way of life - 23rd December 2008
- What does the year hold for science? - As the world prepares to celebrate the anniversaries of Darwin and Galileo, we examine how their research is still shaping the course of science - and discover what the leading lights of the scientific community will be most excited about in 2009 - 22nd December 2008
- Barack Obama's grassroots campaign was unprecedented - Before Barack Obama gave his victory speech in Chicago, his campaign sent a message to its supporters. The core of it - repeated in the speech itself - was simple: "All of this happened because of you." - 6th November 2008
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