of a script allen his daughter still ongoing a media were extremely quick to blame russia as jacqueline froogle reports the west is in no doubt russia tried to poison one of its ex agents on putin's orders but if true that's actually a bit embarrassing professional assassins cover their tracks they don't leave their fingerprints all over the scene yet that's what using a nerve agent produced only in the soviet union essentially amounts to at least if it was the russians on top of this the assassination bid looks like it was a botched job with collateral damage and this is attracting an intense amount of global scrutiny presumably that was not what was intended and not what you'd expect from a slick all powerful secret service russian or not and yet outrageous an illegal act on british soil an attack on the united kingdom a new generation against the west the increasingly violent erratic approach of the right just contempt of contempt of the rule of law and contempt of our values so which is it bumbling idiots or super spies if we look back it seems that answers that question can be tailored to