Kevin Toolis
Articles by Kevin Toolis
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UK Politics
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
World Affairs
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
Politics
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
World Affairs
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
World Affairs
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?
Politics
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?
Society
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
