I did not anticipate that an open public meeting in Salisbury itself would be 95% sceptical of the official Novichok hoax – but it was.
Thanks to UK Column for putting this on. I hope you find it enlightening – there is information which goes beyond my previous articles on the subject. In about a week there will also be a film of our tour of the key sites in Salisbury.
The video settings prevent me from embedding it but you can watch it here.
https://youtu.be/3K9jUOYsga0?t=1464
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A comment I made a while back that was ‘moderated’ but might now be allowed was: “who is the person in the picture taking the photo ?”
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Misleading article here about the Skripals in the daily mail. Apparently, the final whitewash is to be applied next month.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15294993/Novichok-Russian-spy-daughter-Putin-Salisbury-poisonings.html
Question
Can anyone identify the photographer reflected in the mirror in the picture ?
It wasn’t taken on the day of the poisoning if you were thinking that’s significant.
A ‘misleading article in the Daily Mail’; surely not. I never heard of such a thing…
The person reflected in the mirror is Sergei’s son Sasha, Stevie, who sadly died of alcoholic liver disease in 2017. The picture was taken a few years before the poisonings, which is why Yulia looks a lot different.
While I’m here, have I mentioned that anyone who wants to get a good idea of what happened in Salisbury & Amesbury in 2018 – from someone who doesn’t believe 9/11 was an inside job – can read this?
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/forums/topic/the-salisbury-poisonings-episode-was-all-staged/page/6/#post-103404
Been following this on john Helmers site, recommend the following links:
https://johnhelmer.net/lord-hughes-buries-the-skripals-alive/
https://propagandainfocus.com/schrodingers-novichok-12-points-from-the-dawn-sturgess-inquiry-part-1/
And,
https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/the-day-of-the-skripal
Enjoy …
Sorry Craig but this isn’t at all significant. Anyone attending a meeting organised through UK Column is going to be a card carrying conspiracy theorist from the outset. If you told them their grandmothers had been replaced with space aliens controlled by the CIA I expect 95% would believe it. A couple of months ago Patrick Henningsen was on UK Column promoting the view that the ‘Troubles’ in Northern Ireland were organised by the Illuminati as a dry run for the War on Terror.
https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-24th-october-2025
Scroll down to 31’18” and follow the links.
What next? Chemtrails? Freeman on the Land?
I know a lot of people around here are going to disagree but do be careful how far down this rabbit hole you venture. You’re at risk of becoming a laughing stock.
Henningsen yes. UK column no. Or rather UK column have a track record of sticking to conspiracy theories that can be proven (or are not in doubt, just covered up by mainstream media)
“You’re at risk of becoming a laughing stock.”
Pears, you recently denied that you are an acolyte of our corrupt, genocidal establishment and claimed that you would like to see every bribed politician jailed.
Yet when asked whether that applies to Labour government ministers bribed by the Israel lobby you refused to answer.
As whenever you are asked about UK government complicity in the Genocide in Gaza.
Objectively, do you not think you are slightly more at risk than Craig?
Not surprising there are plenty of sceptics.
Anyone with half the wits, god gave a turnip. Saw that the the official story stunk from start to finish.
Even the MSM framing verbage, calling Skripal a “Russian spy” was BS. He was formerly a Russian *officer* turned “British spy”.
On the one hand this is all very worthy – on the other hand I really no longer want to argue with anyone about Skripals or Novichok or Litvinenko. It is all so palpably clear. It is like arguing that Charlie Kirk was victim 500,001 of Israel. So what? I’m much more worried about victims 600,000+
Craig,
This is an interesting and important presentation – thanks for bringing it to our attention. Several new things for me. It seems that several medics in Salisbury must have been heavily leaned on to shut up.
I attended having seen the link on Craig’s twitter feed.
Looking around the room I saw very few people I recognised as locals. So I suspect the majority had come through the UK Column promotion of the event and as such could be a skewed sample.
I think if we roped in 60+ Salisburyites it would be 80% or more swallowing the official narrative whole. Even among the better informed locals there is a tendency to believe the basics of the official thesis.
As a long time follower of this blog I was aware from the outset that something was distinctly fishy and have none of the ‘but our government would never do such a thing’ complacency. I have read enough history to know better.
‘Conspiracy theory’ is a pejorative bandied about too readily. There does not have to be a shadowy cabal pulling strings from behind the scenes. Any more than there needs to be a creator to explain why we life evolves the way it does. If the environment and the rewards are conducive to certain behaviours then those behaviours will be favoured. This is why nobody from inside the civil service etc speaks out.
I have recently been rereading ‘A Bright Shining Lie’ about the us involvement in Vietnam in the late 50s and 60s. Everybody knew what they were doing was not going to lead to success but it did lead to opportunities for medals, promotions and massive graft. So it continued, worsened and spread until it collapsed in on itself. It was the only war they had.
I fear the new cold war with Russia is very similar in so many ways.
We are living in very interesting times.
On a personal note. It was wonderful to meet Craig in person last night and to listen to him expound so eloquently on this topic.
Information from the Dawn Sturgess enquiry shows that it’s very likely that on the day that Sergei Skripal collapsed, he had a brief meeting near his house with his two alleged poisoners, Petrov and Boshirov.
The timings of CCTV recordings of Sergei’s car at other locations show that he must have driven off with Yulia from his house for the very last time at about 13:30 on 4 March 2018. Similar analysis of the movements of Petrov and Boshirov makes it look very likely that they were close by at the same time, to within a couple of minutes. They had got there by foot via a laneway that ends less than forty metres from the house.
One of the enquiry’s lawyers said during the hearings that the two visitors reached the Skripals’ house “just in time to witness them leaving”. And Lord Hughes said in his report that “the two men might have been in a position to see the departure of the Skripals from their home”.
It’s remarkable that these two things happened so close together in time at the house that day: the only time that either Yulia or Sergei departed, and the second of only two very brief trips by Petrov and Boshirov there that day.
What’s more, Sergei had been sitting in his car for about five minutes before driving off, supposedly waiting for Yulia to come out of the house. The bit about Yulia could have been added to hide the fact that Sergei was really waiting for the two visitors.
The only attempt by the enquiry to suggest a possible purpose for the visitors’ trip was in Lord Hughes’s report, where he said that this “might have been another opportunity” (as well as their earlier trip to the house) to smear the door handle with Novichok. But there are some problems with that theory, even for those who believe the door handle story, and Lord Hughes considers the earlier trip to be the more likely opportunity to apply the Novichok.
Mark Urban says that malware was probably used to track or eavesdrop on the Skripals, in order to time the trip to allow the visitors to observe the Skripals’ departure. But Urban didn’t say why they would want to observe the departure. Perhaps to confirm that Sergei had touched the door handle before departing? That’s a motive for that trip that Grok suggested in a long conversation on the subject.
Anyway, if Petrov and Boshirov had applied deadly nerve agent during the previous trip that day, they would have wanted to stay well away, not just from the scene of their crime but also from Salisbury. They would not have wanted to return to a place where they might possibly encounter paramedics or even police responding to an emergency.
No wonder the enquiry and the media did not explore this timeline in much detail. The possibility of a mutually agreed meeting would undermine their already unbelievable narrative of an assassination attempt.