The Litvinenko, erm, Inquiry?!?

In late November 2010 the UK Queen recorded a Christmas message to her subjects in the Commonwealth. In this message she subtly boasted about how England had been awarded the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

However a few days later on December 2nd (2/12/10) FIFA awarded the 2018 World Cup to Russia. This was of course hugely embarrassing to the UK Queen. So rather than taking up the option of simply re-recording the message the UK has had a vendetta against both Russia and FIFA ever since.

In late 2013/early 2014 vendettas against Russia became extremely fashionable. After all the west was supporting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) while Russia was opposing ISIL and getting to host the 2014 Winter Olympics. So the US overthrew the government of Russia's neighbour Ukraine - turning it into ISIL's Shamali (Northern) Province - to provide an excuse to sanction Russia.

The UK obviously didn't need much encouragement to join in so blew the dust off the case Alexander Litvinenko who died in 2006 of polonium poisoning. An at least triple agent working for Russia, American and British intelligence with a specialism for organised crime Litvinenko is the sort of man that a lot of people - including Britain - wanted dead.

However the UK decided that the political climate suited the entire thing being blamed on Russia and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

So in January 2015 the UK opened a public inquiry into the death. However this was a formal inquiry in name only and in practice was - rather like Shamali Province - simply a forum for anti-Russian dissidents to air their paranoid ramblings in public.

For example at no point during proceedings was either Russia or the men accused of carrying out the poisoning represented in any way at all.

One of the wildest claims the Litvinenko family lawyer made was that he could trace the polonium used back to a specific nuclear reactor within Russia.

If this inquiry was intended as a critical examination of the facts - as a public inquiry is supposed to be - then the presiding Judge - Sir Robert Owen - should have asked the lawyer to provide evidence to support his speculation or simply withdraw the claim. Sir Owen though decided to simply let the claim stand unchallenged.

Things descended beyond parody though when the Litvinenko lawyer claimed that the alleged killers had put the lives of hundreds of thousands of Londoners at risk by carrying radioactive polonium through the streets including to a football match.

Polonium emits what is known as alpha radiation. This does extremely horrible things to the soft tissues of the human body such as the blood. However like many other things that do horrible things to the inside of the human body such various forms of bacteria, virus', heavy metals such as lead and even rain-water alpha radiation is stopped by the human skin.

As such this claim of Londoners being put in danger is utter nonsense. It is also High School level physics. However Sir Owen did not pick up this and the claim went unchallenged.

Today Sir Richard Owen has concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin is personally responsible for Litvinenko's death. I don't think even Sir Owen expects his claim to be taken seriously.

The UK is currently trying to re-negotiate it's relationship with the European Union (EU) ahead of a promised referendum on the UK's continuing membership of the EU.

Over the years a significant point of friction between the EU and the UK has been the UK's treatment of me and in particular my grandmother.

Although I am adorable the EU's main cause for concern is that my grandmother's case went to Court numerous times including to Britain's highest court - the High Court where the Litvinenko case was held. At every stage those British Courts completely disregarded the law and simply returned the verdict the Crown had demanded.

When I was facing criminal proceedings in the summer of 2013 there were lots of complaints from tennis fans about the *ahem* "extremely slippery courts at the All England Club at Wimbledon."

Therefore the wild and unsubstantiated claims made Sir Owen today are not intended to be believed. Instead they are to highlight the credibility problem faced by Britain's politically biased legal system.

Although it's never been far away in Britain this issue was first raised yesterday with the Poppi Worthington case. Here a father essentially raped his 13 month old daughter to death. However the British Courts and police saw their role as covering up and destroying any evidence in order to prevent him being prosecuted for this crime.

Today's Litvinenko announcement has been accompanied by fresh revelations in the Jimmy Savile child abuse cover up.

The fact that the UK seems to enjoy child rape stories just that little bit too much is obviously also a point of friction with some of the EU's less pervy members.

The sanctions over Shamali Province is also a point of friction between the EU and the UK in its own right. It's clear that the Eurosceptic British MP's who constantly call for fresh EU sanctions on Russia are not doing so because they have a problem with Russia's behaviour or even out of particular support for ISIL. Instead they're doing so specifically to damage the Eurozone economy.

Obviously that hasn't gone down well with the nations that make up the Eurozone economy.

12:25 on 21/1/16 (UK date).