James Buchan
Articles by James Buchan
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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
Politics
If the Chinese get off their bikes . . .
- 18 September 2000
This may be just the beginning. The oil price could go even higher, as Asian and Latin American living standards rise, argues James Buchan
Politics
The dynasties of thugs reign on
- 19 June 2000
Once, the Middle East had hereditary monarchies. Now, as Syria shows, it will get hereditary republics. James Buchanreports
Politics
Sad, foolish, rather disgusting
- 24 April 2000
James Buchan, having endured the Irving libel case, concludes that the defeated author, like the Mitford girls in the 1930s, sees the Nazis as funny folk
Politics
Now then, are we getting anywhere?
- 20 December 1999
New Statesman Millennium - For most of history, people thought it had been downhill all the way since the Trojan wars. Then 18th-century philosophers invented progress. James Buchan asks if this has turned out well
Politics
God's very own currency
- 19 July 1999
Suddenly, everybody is selling gold. But don't believe those who say inflation is dead. It will be back one day, and so will gold
Politics
Welcome back to the 19th century
- 02 April 1999
James Buchan predicts that stable prices, as in Victorian times, will create a fabulously rich rentier class, and a congealed society
