I searched through fourteen pages of his archive at the fraudian (back to December 2016) and there WAS NOT ONE article on Assange, in defence of him or otherwise.
Also, he's changed his ####ing tune a bit from this piece in the Independent:
The fraudian has clearly sensed the anger and potential backlash on this issue so their "Guardian View" this morning (oddly the only opinion piece on Assange; can you think of a bigger story to a journalist right now?) is this mealy-mouthed attempt to position themselves on the right side of history after years of cheering on the dogs:
I noticed this from 2016; the fraudian hand-wringing about the threat to brave journalists and not one mention of Julian Assange or Wikileaks in the entire piece.