Christopher Davis is a lecturer in social anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London
February 2007
Downwardly mobile
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Christopher Davis: If child welfare is directly related to social mobility, more prisons and tougher sentencing will not improve prospects for our children.
August 2006
Too much information
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Christopher Davis: Broadband is the opiate of the masses.
May 2006
New Hampshire in rebellion
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Christopher Davis: The state whose motto is 'Live Free or Die' is standing against federal plans to turn driving licences into ID cards.
April 2006
Bitter pills
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Hating the poor
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In bed with the sorcerer's apprentice
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Oprah gets political
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Military moderates
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A nation of legal white immigrants
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A little calm, please
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DeLay gratification
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Beyond black and white
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March 2006
Blogged down or how I learned to stop worrying and like Comment is free
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Christopher Davis: The launch of Comment is free started with the champagne fizz of first postings and ended with the post-party blues.
Liberalism, illiberally applied
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Christopher Davis: A new Dutch regulation compels some would-be immigrants to watch a film featuring gay men kissing and a topless woman.
Thank goodness for the Tipton Three
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Christopher Davis: Seeing Michael Winterbottom and Matt Whitecross's "Road to Guantanamo" in a cinema brought one thought to my mind: Thank goodness the Tipton Three survived, stayed sane and are able to bear witness.
June 2005
The frontier continent
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Christopher Davis: The tendency to see Africa as exceptional underestimates our increasingly common experience of corporate globalisation.