On 12th March 2018, the front page of The Times announced that Sergei and Yulia Skripal were dead.
Two days later, that same newspaper claimed that almost 40 people in Salisbury had required treatment for nerve agent poisoning.
Does Nick Cohen wish to ban The Times?
It is interesting to speculate as to what would happen to the British media if it were to drum out everyone who had claimed that 100,000 military age males had been murdered in Kosovo.
Or that the attacks of 11th September 2001 had come from Afghanistan. Or that there had been weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Or that those weapons had been capable of deployment within 45 minutes.
Or that Saddam Hussein had been feeding people into a giant paper shredder. Or that he had been attempting to obtain uranium from Niger.
Or that a genocide had been imminent in Benghazi. Or that Gaddafi had been feeding Viagra to his soldiers in order to encourage mass rape. Or that he had intended to flee to Venezuela.
Or that Assad had gassed Ghouta, as if that were an undisputed fact. Or, as still does the rounds, that there were an Iranian nuclear weapons programme.
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