Lord Chief Justice Ian Burnett, the judge that will soon decide Julian Assange’s fate, is a close personal friend of Sir Alan Duncan, who as foreign minister arranged Assange’s eviction from the Ecuadorian embassy.  The two have known each other since their student days at Oxford in the 1970s, when Duncan called Burnett “the Judge”. … Continue reading Assange judge is 40-year ‘good friend’ of minister who orchestrated his arrest