EVERY TUESDAY

No tragedy is too great to be manipulated, as demonstrated by the Russian state media reports that the horrific chemical attack on Syrian civilians was a hoax.

Those same so-called news outlets have constantly sought to muddy the waters over the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury – even last week trying to undermine the credibility of intelligence proving that Yulia’s emails had been hacked by Russia for years before the attack.

Confusion over what is or is not true has been intensified by Donald Trump’s wearisome habit of bellowing – usually via Twitter – “fake news”, whenever a new claim about the seedier or shadier aspects of his past surfaces.

Whether it concerns alleged extramarital sex, or business relationships that have the whiff of something not