Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop. — James Buchan Crisis Copy Share Image
Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise. — James Buchan Democracy Copy Share Image
Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue. — James Buchan Arabia Copy Share Image
In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency… — James Buchan Agency Copy Share Image
Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice. — James Buchan Doe Copy Share Image
By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors. — James Buchan Aids Copy Share Image
Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their… — James Buchan Arabs Copy Share Image
Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control that they… — James Buchan Arabia Copy Share Image
Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be… — James Buchan Afghanistan Copy Share Image
The aircraft that blew up the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington conveyed several messages to the… — James Buchan Aircraft Copy Share Image
In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only… — James Buchan Bulls Copy Share Image
The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War… — James Buchan After Copy Share Image
Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash… — James Buchan Accounting Copy Share Image
Last chances in the Middle East have been two a dirham since the 1950s. Each year the enmities are more profound, the… — James Buchan Been Copy Share Image
The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of… — James Buchan Allowing Copy Share Image
At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call, skim it… — James Buchan Aids Copy Share Image
One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular… — James Buchan Authenticity Copy Share Image
The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a… — James Buchan Arabia Copy Share Image
Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow… — James Buchan Alliances Copy Share Image
Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle… — James Buchan Assertive Copy Share Image
Unlike despotisms, modern democracies are not supposed promiscuously to accumulate property and then charge their taxpayers to maintain it. But that is… — James Buchan Accumulate Copy Share Image
Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been… — James Buchan Carriages Copy Share Image
The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the… — James Buchan Age Copy Share Image
When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so… — James Buchan Another world Copy Share Image
There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells… — James Buchan 20th century Copy Share Image
It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world to help… — James Buchan Economic Copy Share Image
To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better… — James Buchan 18th century Copy Share Image
There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished away. To… — James Buchan Enlightenment Copy Share Image
When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result was the… — James Buchan Assets Copy Share Image
