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In a low-key announcement the British government have demanded that Russia extradite two suspects in the Salisbury novichok attack. Media reporting on this latest move in the novichok saga is replete with the same contradictions and absurdities that have plagued this story since day one.

This is my latest article on the unfolding novichok drama.  In this one the Guardian and the Daily Mail get basic facts wrong, and report on an a bizarre coincidence without recognising it as such.

Read article here.