The Honourable James Buchan (born 11 June 1954) is a Scottish novelist and historian. Read full biography of James Buchan →
Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.
To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to... →
Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.
Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes.
Life without oil, in fact, would be so different that it is frightening to contemplate. We are addicted, and it is no comfortable addiction.
Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born revolutionary who is believed by most Arab and Iranian observers to be the inspiration of the attacks in New York and... →
To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of... →
Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the impartial... →
Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of... →
Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle... →
It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world to help tackle the actual grievances in Palestine... →
Last chances in the Middle East have been two a dirham since the 1950s. Each year the enmities are more profound, the despots more bloodthirsty and... →
One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign... →
The Honourable James Buchan (born 11 June 1954) is a Scottish novelist and historian.