Craig Murray, Novichok, British Government Bollocks, and Dog Shit

Craig Murray, the former British diplomat ousted by the Blair Government from his post as UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan, and indeed from his Foreign Office employment, for obstinate objection to the receipt of intelligence from hideous torture carried out by the then Uzbek regime of Islam Abduganiyevich Karimov, recently updated his evaluation of the Salisbury Novichok poisoning saga:

Pure: Ten Points I Just Can’t Believe About the Official Skripal Narrative

In which connection, it may be helpful to explain that the word "Pure" was a term used in Victorian England by collectors of dog shit. This material was apparently gathered from the streets of London and other cities and sold at a shilling a bucket to tanneries where it was rubbed into leather as part of the tanning process. Presumably it is in that sense that Murray uses the term here. 

Today, the tanning industry has dispensed with Pure, instead relying on salts of chromium and other substances, which in a way seems unfortunate since:

Americans have  83 Million pet dogs,
They, the dogs that is, produce 10.6 million tons of shit every year,
One gram of dog shit contains 23 million bacteria,
Studies have attributed 20-30% of the bacteria in urban watersheds to dog shit,
Air samples in Cleveland and Detroit contain bacteria that are 10-50% from dog shit.
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More recent still, is Murray's Skripal Affair blog post:

The Miracle of Salisbury: The BBC Enters 'Propaganda Hall Of Fame' With Skripals Story

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