Who is James Buchan
James Buchan (born 11 June 1954) is a Scottish novelist and historian.Biography
Buchan is a son of the late William Buchan, 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir, and grandson of John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, the Scottish novelist and diplomat. He has several brothers and sisters, including the writer Perdita Buchan. Educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, he began his career as a Financial Times correspondent, writing from the Middle East, Germany, and the United States. In 1986, he married Lady Evelyn Rose Phipps, daughter of Oswald Phipps, 4th Marquess of Normanby. She died in 2018. He has three children.
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A Parish of Rich Women (1984) Whitbread Book of the Year award, Betty Trask Award
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- 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 squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.
- 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 of revenue play in his imagination.
- For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity.
- 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 panic and helplessness.
- 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 squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.
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Citeseer: "any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age." - james buchanMariposalong: i remember loving the 39 steps, so i got an anthology of james buchan stories, and discovered that the british believed that the "round headed celts" (i.e. irish, i.e. me) were degenerates. and then there were none is nothing.
Indiana_buchan: joe carr george preston marshall curly lambeau george halas tim mara bill dwyer edwin simandi charles coppen james dooley peter laudati dan blaine jack depler dutch sternaman david jones john dunn val ness
Allpartycycling: from the ft: we should regulate suvs out of existence
Norabwhyte: the full title of the report is 'recover to rebuild: investing in the nursing workforce for health system effectiveness' by authors james buchan and howard catton. congratulations!
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