James BuchanA collection of 30 posts

Wisdom

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

War

Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bom...

War

Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001 and the US retaliati...

War

The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East from Britain's ...

Technology

The world dominion of western thought forms of organisation technology and mil...

Society

In modern society where most people live in cities and where both needs and wi...

Science

Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science – s...

Power

Whatever else it was Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal...

Politics

We read too much Shakespeare at school and view our parliamentary politics as d...

Poetry

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information ...