Guilty Until Innocent? Guardian Columnist Calls UK Govt ‘Clueless’ for Blaming Russia for Poisonings

• Guilty Until Innocent? Guardian columnist Calls UK Govt ‘Clueless’ for Blaming Russia for Poisonings
  by https://www.rt.com/
  It is a basic tenet of British law that the accused are innocent until proven guilty. And yet when it’s Russia in the dock, that seems irrelevant. Top Tory ministers have squarely accused the Kremlin of the Novichok poisonings in Wiltshire, and the mainstream media has been awash with unknown sources and so-called “experts”claiming they have reasons to believe Russia is involved.
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  In a refreshingly articulate piece in the Guardian, however, former Times editor Simon Jenkins called out the government over its baseless allegations.
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  While it is disappointing that it took a MSM journalist so long to reach such an elementary conclusion, it is still comforting that a piece entitled “If the Novichok was planted by Russia, where’s the evidence?” has finally made it to print.
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  Jenkins, who also worked as an editor for the Evening Standard, raises points that, in truth, a primary school kid would conceive. Ergo, why on Earth would Russia attack its own citizens just before hosting the World Cup, which, Jenkins said, is of  “mammoth chauvinist significance” to the country?
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