James Buchan
Articles by james buchan
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Ideas
. . . and a prosperous New Year?
- 13 December 2007
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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?
Environment
Oil: We're addicted
- 17 July 2006
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.
Politics
The nuclear fat is in the fire
- 14 February 2005
Iran - Iran is not some ill-sorted colonial confection like Iraq with 80 years on the clock. This proud, ancient nation would resist US invasion at all levels
Politics
The return of a forgotten ideology
- 31 March 2003
The Iraqi resistance has breathed life into the corpse of Arab nationalism. The British and Americans risk putting Saddam on the T-shirts
World Affairs
Ain't bust, so does it need fixing?
- 18 March 2002
The arguments for invading Iraq and overthrowing Saddam are moral, not strategic, argues James Buchan
Politics
Why Muslims are always in turmoil
- 24 September 2001
Terror in America: Islam - The Prophet's followers believe that they should be among the world's great successes
Politics
Vote before you turn out the lights
- 28 May 2001
Election 2001 - James Buchan joins the candidates in North Norfolk where, amid the second homes, you can just detect the remains of a rural Labour working-class vote
Books
Bedlam's phrophet. James Buchan on the reviled historian David Irving - "half gentleman, half scholar, but the wrong halves"
- 26 March 2001
The Holocaust on Trial: history, justice and the David Irving libel case
D D Guttenplan Granta Books, 352pp, £17.99
ISBN 186207397X
Politics
Yes, you can carry on spending
- 15 January 2001
The US is experiencing a squeeze on profits, but that is not necessarily malign, and it certainly need not affect the UK, writes James Buchan
