THE CONSPIRASPHERE

In 2018 Dawn Sturgess became the first alleged British victim of Novichok. As the public inquiry into her death wraps up, NOEL ROONEY ponders some of the dangling loose ends…

SKRIPAL SAGA REVISITED Polonium and Novichok: it could be the name of an unfunny double act, or absurd characters in a Samuel Beckett drama. For close to 20 years now, the shadow of these monstrous compounds has hung over the British political scene. And that shadow, if you look out of the corner of your eye, takes on the shape of a bear. But then we live in times, it seems, where a few rogue molecules can bring the world to a juddering halt. Litvinenko’s fatal tea party in 2006 was a shock, at least in part because no such high-profile suspicious death had occurred since Georgi Markov’s terminal encounter with a baleful umbrella on Waterloo Bridge in 1978. Twelve years later, the Skripal affair updated the method and the…

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