Episode 155: The Salisbury Poisonings | Geopolitics, War & Espionage #48

We hurtle towards the present day and the end of this mammoth season as we hit 2018 this week when the poisonings of two Russians, a father and daughter named Sergei and Yulia Skripal, in the Wiltshire town of Salisbury kick off mass panic, the death of a woman entirely unrelated to them whatsoever, a further tensing of international relations with Russia itself, calls to boycott the World Cup AND (in the generation of social media) a slew of memes.

And what part could the British weather have played in the whole thing?

We take a look as we disorientate ourselves a little bit with both how recent and distant this feels...

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