Kevin Toolis

Articles by Kevin Toolis

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Return of the gun

  • 21 May 2009

The hounding of an Irish journalist for her IRA contacts signals the security services’ panic at the threat of re-emerging violence. Their worries are well founded

The rules of successful rebellion

  • 08 November 2004
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By historical standards, the Palestinians have waged an ineffective terrorist campaign. But the costs to Israel are still too high

The stooge of Baghdad

  • 05 July 2004

Iraq handover - Puppet regimes have had a poor record over the past 2,000 years. Allawi is unlikely to improve on it

Rise of the terrorist professors

  • 14 June 2004

Throughout academia, the study of terrorism is booming. But in reality, argues Kevin Toolis, these "experts" represent an ideology that has its roots in the cold war and in Israeli conservatism

Torture: Simply the spoils of victory?

  • 10 May 2004

The French in Algeria, the British in Northern Ireland: soldiers have long resorted to abusing and humiliating their captive enemy. So why are we so shocked by the photos from Iraq?

Iraq will be Blair's Northern Ireland

  • 20 October 2003

The Prime Minister took Britain out of a futile 30-year war against a tiny but determined terrorist resistance. Why, then, lead us straight back into another?

NS Profile - Sinn Fein

  • 14 October 2002

There is nothing like it in the western political universe. Shinners don't lunch with journalists, don't chat, don't leak. Sinn Fein profiled

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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