as Rage Against The Machine once said: “What’s it gonna take?!”

I wonder if the UK government expected that so many people question their story. Are they regretting having been so incompetent in executing their plot?

Good point! And the effect of the poison was delayed 8 hours?

I don’t know about that, but one of the interesting points to emerge from the High Court judgment was that the Skripals’ lack of capacity was considered on the evidence to arise, at least to a significant degree, from the effects of sedation as well as those of any nerve agent they may have been in contact with.

It won’t have been very hard to find – the Jewish Chronicle ran the story in 2015. Curiously, at that time, it only felt the mural had ‘possible anti-semitic undertones’ and no-one else through the story was worth picking up… wonder what’s changed in two years…

"Our Deputy Secretary Sullivan, Assistant Secretary Wess Mitchell, and many others in the building across the interagency process have worked tirelessly over the past three weeks to achieve this unprecedented level of cooperation and also coordination. The end result – 151 Russian intelligence personnel sent home to Moscow – is a testimony of how seriously the world takes Russia’s ongoing global campaign to undermine international peace and stability, to threaten the sovereignty and security of countries worldwide, and to subvert and discredit Western institutions."

The above quote is from Nauert’s prepared remarks, not the more free wheeling Q&A section.
The British prime minister made her allegations against Russia only on March 12:

"It is now clear that Mr Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with a military grade nerve agent of a type developed by Russia.
This is part of a group of nerve agents known as 'Novichok'."

When you are lying, it is incredibly difficult to remain consist in keeping lies going.

Or she might just say that her experience was … surreal.

Methinks nope!

Do Russians wear gloves at minus 3 Degree Celsius? Or is that summer for them?