Days 3 and 4 – February 2nd and 3rd Small details can easily be muscled aside in big stories. But it is often the little things that provide the human context, especially where the subject matter is otherwise too extraordinary to allow such mundane issues to see much daylight. Marina and Anatoly Litvinenko, widow and son…
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The Litvinenko Inquiry – Confirmation and denials.
Day 2 – 28th January How easy is it to actually kill someone anonymously? I leaned into that question, albeit in a somewhat glib manner, with the post Not in front of the children. I ask it now because many commenting on the Litvinenko Inquiry have questioned why a would-be assassin might employ such a bizarre…
The Litvinenko Inquiry – Day 1
Day 1 – 27th January The Litvinenko Inquiry that started today in London’s Royal Courts of Justice is expected to take nine weeks and be complete before Easter. There will be many who will wish it could take longer. Sir Robert Owen, Chairman of the inquiry, said he will “make public the final conclusion on…
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