James Buchan

Articles by James Buchan

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Afghanistan

Doomed to failure

Two sides of the Coin

Hung parliament

Who would rule?

Doing deals in Downing Street

Interview

Seymour Hersh

The NS Interview: Seymour Hersh

Television

Paradox

Paradox

What if...

The Beatles never formed

What if .... the Beatles had never formed

Will Self

Eats at Subway

Attack of the one-foot sandwich

Iraq war

We want a trial

Iraq, Palin and building bridges

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Our selection

Books of the Year: Part I

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