Julian Assange secretly fathered two children inside Ecuadorian embassy, partner reveals in bid for his release from Belmarsh amid coronavirus fears

my brother actually met Assange as part of that article (he’s not Andrew o’Hagan). Says he was awful.

^agreed Strange.

justdontatme thanks for sharing.

That lrb article - he's just as skin-crawlingly revolting as I expected. I vaguely used to know someone who knew him, and they were narcissistic birds of a feather.

Nothing weird or dodgy about someone who uses multiple aliases at all

That's weird. Even the flying lawyer has more of a professional footprint than that.

I don't think this woman is a solicitor. I think she may have been doing legal research. She seems to have a variety of names Stella Morris / Stella Moris (or Morris) - Smith Robertson and even Sara Gonzalez Devant.

She's not currently listed on the Law Society as being a practicing solicitor (which is of course not proof that she wasn't in the past) but she has no professional Google history that I can find. Even the most unexceptional of solicitors will have something.

against his "human rights" to deny him a family life! - A quote from his team/him. I really don't get the attempt to use that argument. That's prison. That's what it does. It denies freedom. Does he really expect anybody who has children to avoid prison?

Half my time here is spent supporting GC arguments and the other half is looking for opportunities to make Pro Boner jokes Prodigal.

He's saying nothing until he's seen her briefs ....his brief.

For nauticant.

It might be another case of Pro Boner billing.

reported

Who is paying that bill out of interest?

Not Assange, for certain.

It might be another case of Pro Boner billing.

Not sure what it is that people are seeing in him other than smug git who'll be happy to hurt people if it suits him and who apparently has some sort of moral objection to hygiene.

And don't forget the cat. He didn't look after the cat.

So she was his lawyer... there's a rude joke in there about her firm billing for time supposedly spent with the client

Who is paying that bill out of interest?

It beats me how any woman could willingly allow him to touch her. He makes my skin crawl, and that predates finding out about the sexual assault allegations. Apart from anything else, he exudes self-satisfaction and arrogance, which I can't stand.

Not just you. Even before he was confirmed to be a predator he exuded predatorial tendencies, and he seems like the kind of person who you'd constantly be fighting the urge to punch in the face. There's just nothing likeable about him, imo. Which makes it odd that he has so many devoted fans. Not sure what it is that people are seeing in him other than smug git who'll be happy to hurt people if it suits him and who apparently has some sort of moral objection to hygiene.

JA's Sponsor, Ex-President Rafael Correa of Ecuador has lately been found guilty of bribery and corruption but remains free in exile in Belgium where he seems to have plenty of money to pay the rent.

"Ugandan affairs" - now there's a really ancient joke!

Especially funny since Mary Kenny is a thunderingly self-righteous Catholic prude these days

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Ugandan%20discussions

As a slight tangent, I don't understand the argument for releasing prisoners, surely they are better off inside where essentially they are already in isolation as a group. They aren't coming into contact with members of the public if all visitors are banned and so cannot be exposed to the virus. I don't get why a global pandemic means you get a reduced sentence effectively. Can anyone enlighten me?

You can't keep prisons hermetically sealed unless you want to lock the staff in as well. Like other high-density living quarters, like cruise ships and nursing homes, when you get one case inside it multiplies fast. One of the biggest clusters in NYC is a prison. Releasing low-risk prisoners near the end of their sentence makes sense, not just for them but for other prisoners and staff who now have more space.

This was a fascinating read on Assange, few years old now

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v36/n05/andrew-o-hagan/ghosting

So she was his lawyer... there's a rude joke in there about her firm billing for time supposedly spent with the client, but I will resist...

I can't see the US - of any political stripe - being thrilled with poor Ecuador over this.

Possibly because health care in prisons is so poor that if the virus does start to spread it will be a death sentence to many of the inmates (and probably staff as well).

This is gross, it's like reverse Stockholm Syndrome or something, very weird.

As a slight tangent, I don't understand the argument for releasing prisoners, surely they are better off inside where essentially they are already in isolation as a group. They aren't coming into contact with members of the public if all visitors are banned and so cannot be exposed to the virus. I don't get why a global pandemic means you get a reduced sentence effectively. Can anyone enlighten me?