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
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
Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise. — James Buchan Democracy Copy Share Image
Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop. — James Buchan Crisis 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue. — James Buchan Arabia 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
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
Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their… — James Buchan Dictator 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
If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside. — James Buchan Dispassionate 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
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
