'Democracy' and 'sovereignty' are concepts worth examining as the US and UK now overtly snub both the United Nations and international law. Democracy and sovereignty don't have a hope in hell of getting a foothold when the judiciary is in the grip of state capture.
The revealing litmus test - or canary in the mine - is the fascinating Assange case, which is why I keep turning to it. Apologies if I bore anyone by keeping a close eye on it: but it's turning out to be a key case that vividly exposes fault lines and state capture, at every turn. The longer the case drags on, the more eyes are opened.
George Szamuely writes, after yet another court ruling (of a decade's worth) doesn't go Assange's way:
"A near-perfect record. Assange has lost every round in the UK legal system, the very system that Geoffrey Robertson, QC, of Doughty Street Chambers has "faith" in."
That leaked email from UK Crown Prosecuting Services sent to Swedish prosecutors - which instructed the slightly reluctant Swedes to keep a holding pattern/political case alive and "not to get cold feet" - points to state capture of the UK judiciary. The blind eye turned to Judge Lady Emma Arbuthnot's refusal to recuse herself from the case though her husband Lord Arbuthnot is mentioned 62 times in the Wikileaks database is another indicator of the death of UK judicial sovereignty. Discussion predicated on the idea that if the UK leaves the EU it will 'regain sovereignty', should surely be viewed in this context.