The Salisbury Poisonings: A Spy Next Door review – Theresa May is full of bluster in this fascinating deep dive

This lively look at the 2018 novichok attack is full of strange and intriguing detail – even if May and Amber Rudd’s contributions don’t get the scrutiny they deserve “It doesn’t sound like something that happens in your town.” The 2018 poisoning of former Russian military officer turned British double agent Sergei Skripal, along with his daughter Yulia, was extraordinary because of where it took place. Not that there are many locations where Russian agents using a chemical weapon against a former asset would be normal – but it would be relatively easy to comprehend in Paris, London or Berlin. In the quiet Wiltshire cathedral city of Salisbury, the contrast between everyday life and lethal international espionage was acute. That’s the most prominent of many angles taken by The Salisbury Poisonings: A Spy Next Door, a not quite comprehensive but still nicely busy feature length documentary that offers a compendium of ways in which the Salisbury attack was fascinating and deeply strange. We meet a cross-section of Salisburians, starting with artist Meg Edgar, quoted above, who acts as a barometer for citizens’ fear and bewilderment. Rev Kelvin Inglis is closer to th