James Buchan

Articles by James Buchan

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Crude World: the Violent Twilight of Oil

  • 29 October 2009

Ayatollah Khomeini's funeral

  • 12 March 2009
  • 2 comments

The funeral of Ayatollah Khomeini was not a tragedy, writes James Buchan, but a gruesome farce: idolatrous, makeshift, deadly and utterly lacking in self-control

An inevitable crisis

  • 18 December 2008
  • 4 comments

Viewed from a distance, the events of 2008 will be seen as a particularly dramatic example of the age-old cycle of famine and feast. James Buchan reflects on a financial crisis of unprecedented size and complexity

The fire next time

  • 13 November 2008
  • 14 comments

Every attempt to make banks more responsible has made them more reckless. Unless the sector is radically reformed, future meltdowns will make the current crisis look routine

When Keynes went to America

  • 06 November 2008
  • 3 comments

The first Bretton Woods meeting was intended to establish a postwar money regime and secure funds for rebuilding Europe. It nearly killed the British mastermind behind it

The great crash of 2008

  • 25 September 2008
  • 42 comments

The world's financial institutions are gripped by fear, yet policymakers can do nothing. They are ignorant of how banks now work and have to take poacher-turned-gamekeeper Henry Paulson at his word

Too much oil, too few options

  • 11 September 2008
  • 2 comments

Saudi Arabia may seem rigid, autocratic and antiquated, but it is slowly changing. Under King Abdullah there has been some liberalisation and an attempt to build an economy not based on oil. But is this too little, too late?

. . . and a prosperous New Year?

  • 13 December 2007
  • 3 comments

Is the accumulation of wealth for its own sake disgusting, as Keynes believed - or is it simply human nature to pursue not happiness, but luxury?

Oil: We're addicted

  • 17 July 2006
  • 1 comment

James Buchan has been writing about oil since the 1970s. Here, at a moment when steepling prices, political tension and encroaching climate change seem to point to the terminal crisis, he offers his prognosis for the commodity that made the modern world.

Out there - East Anglia

  • 25 April 2005

James Buchan rates the politicians of Norfolk

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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