Well, Cossack hats off for the apparent chutzpah of our Russian chums. It was apparently straight faces all round in Moscow regarding that intrepid Ecuadorian Dart Frog, who apparently laboured 6,900 miles across the globe from the Chocó rainforest to Kharp in Russia, negotiated all that supermax security in the gulag and squirted some nefarious gunk into Navalny’s system.

After kermitting the crime, the little green rascal then hopped away into the night, undetected.

Notwithstanding the phantastic frog frolic, are we given to understand that some James Bonds were conveniently on standby to smuggle out some bio samples for forensic analysis in Western Europe?

Yet, US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has said that the US didn’t  ‘have any reason to question it’.

I can think of one – it would sound like a sack of made-up bollocks to Helen Keller.

I’m no expert on probability, but it seems like old Marco’s been drinking to froget and possibly licking the backs of a few Colorado River Toads into the process.

In fact, the only truly surprising part about this episode is that Zelensky hasn’t piped up and spun it to chisel out more pocket money out of Europe.

Give him time, and he surely will.