The Honourable James Buchan (born 11 June 1954) is a Scottish novelist and historian. Read full biography of James Buchan →
Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the... →
Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control that they must be... →
Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic... →
Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while each new earthquake, famine... →
There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished away. To impose Enlightenment... →
In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams... →
One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and... →
The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce... →
Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.
In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the... →
The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free... →
Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain... →
When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair... →
The Honourable James Buchan (born 11 June 1954) is a Scottish novelist and historian.