an english guy called elliot higgins who set up an investigative website that we have to thank for findingow, if you try and hide something as big as the russian intelligence behind this, somebody is going to reveal that it is not true. and i don't know why people bother to hide a big things in the world now, because if anyone knows about it, it will get out to the newspaper. there is a tory minister saying this is embarrassing for putin and russia. but they seem to have enjoyed the spectacle of all of it by the looks of it. no one suspected he was not able russian, now that we know the details of it, a highly decorated colonel, they must be happy. a lot of papers are going with this. the daily mail, unmasked, this thing about him being highly decorated, they're using the fa ct highly decorated, they're using the fact that this man must‘ve been given his honour personally by vladimir putin to make that link with the kremlin even stronger. people are almost surprised that hot —— sucha people are almost surprised that hot —— such a high—ranking guy was sent to do this, which then suggest it