Mary Dejevsky: A fight with Russia we cannot hope to win

Full text of the article is here:
http://comment.independent.co.uk/column ... 776117.ece

There are some good points in this article, but I personally most enjoyed this part:

So far, so very routine in a highly unusual case. From that moment, though, things spiralled downwards very fast. Mr Lugovoy not only declined to come quietly, but publicly protested his innocence in Moscow. He claimed, in passing, that British intelligence had tried to recruit him - and not just him, but Litvinenko and his patron, the oligarch-in-exile Boris Berezovsky.

That specific charge, by the way, has never been directly denied by anyone in Britain with the authority to do so. It was merely ridiculed by the Soviet-era defector, Oleg Gordievsky, who subsequently received a CMG in the Queen's birthday honours list - the same honour, aficionados gleefully noted, as that awarded to the fictional master-spy James Bond.