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There has been no recent reporting on the Skripal case in which a British-Russian double agent and his daughter were poisoned in Salisbury, England. There even seem to be attempts to change the public record of the case.
The British government alleged that the Skripals were poisoned by Novichok, a deadly nerve agent, and blamed Russia for it. There are stiill many open questions to ask but the British media, otherwise not afraid of 'door stepping', are curiously uninterested. We already noted in early April that the British press was
throwing Novi-Fog™ onto the public. It was repeating outrageous and illogical claims from "security services" but did no genuine reporting on the Skripal case.
Some photo editor made sense of what the "security services" said and introduced an April 5
London Times piece with a picture of a likely source of the alleged Novichok poison:
Now the former British ambassador Craig Murray quotes Clive Ponting, another former senior civil servant, who
suspects that the British government issued a D-Notice. Such a notice forbids British media to report on an issue. Murray also points to a tweet by Channel 4 correspondent Alex Thomson
from March 12 in which Thomsen mentions a D-Notice specifically related to Mr. Skripal's MI6 handler:
Comment: Was it facts and the law or the #MeToo movement that led to Cosby's guilty verdict?