At greatly increased risk of Covid-19 due to several underlying conditions, Julian Assange cannot be bailed, because he is not serving a sentence imposed as a result of a criminal conviction.
Yes, you read aright. When every murderer had been released from Belmarsh, then Assange would still have to stay there, unless he were dead of coronavirus. So the place would still have to be staffed, as Spandau had to be for Rudolf Hess. Except that Hess was a convict serving a sentence.
Keir Starmer is responsible for this, and there is far too much willingness to let him off the hook for it, as also for a great many other things. Nobody ever treats the Labour Right with anything approaching the viciousness that it directs against everybody else, all the time.
If they did, then Starmer would already be fighting for his political life over Jimmy Savile, with hints dropped that his decision not to prosecute someone so well-connected accounted for his knighthood, that the case gave an insight into his own proclivities, and that that in turn provided psychological background to his persecution of those baselessly accused of similar offences such as Paul Gambaccini, who remains on record as intending to contest his seat.
Yet while the Labour Right dishes out that kind of thing by the bucketload, it never has to deal with so much as a thimbleful of it in return. But the Budget of March 2020, and the Government's response to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, have ended the era that began with the Budget of December 1976. The Centre is the think tank for this new era. Please give generously.
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