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Thursday 3 November 2011
Leading article: An opportunity for Julian Assange to practise what he preaches
After yesterday's High Court verdict, Julian Assange and his legal team have 14 days to lodge an appeal against his extradition to Sweden over allegations of rape and sexual assault. But rather than fighting, the WikiLeaks founder would do better to practise what he has so uncompromisingly preached.
That the two British judges ruled against the first appeal on all four counts is not the issue. Neither – contrary to Mr Assange's assertions yesterday – are the procedural minutiae of European arrest warrants. Even his claims that the case against him is a politically motivated conspiracy are irrelevant.
For a self-appointed champion of global openness to baulk at openness of his own – and manoeuvre so hard to avoid it – risks charges of hypocrisy. If Mr Assange is to live up to his own rhetoric, he should go to Sweden and face his accusers.
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Grace Dent: I’m not sure how these people can avoid being called ‘bigots’. And the more ‘civilised’, the worse they are
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The Daily Cartoon
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Woolwich murder: They killed, then they performed - these men should be starved of our attention
Frank Furedi -
Stop laying into GPs. We don't deserve it
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Woolwich attack: The EDL will seek to exploit this evil crime for their own evil ends
Jamie Lewis
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Woolwich murder: They killed, then they performed - these men should be starved of our attention
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Embrace the e-book, Stephen King. It is not for an author to tell his readers how to read
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Debate: Is it right to call the murder in Woolwich a ‘terrorist attack’?
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Woolwich attack: We have a duty to report these images, but editors face difficult ethical questions
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Cot Death: Doctors and scientists should be clear when official advice changes
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Editorial: What can be done on corporate tax?
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