"So the US refuses UK extradition request for a US person who actually killed someone, while Whitehall panders to US extradition over [Australian citizen] Assange. "Whitehall is not even pretending that the UK is a democratic, independent state, but accepting it is an adjunct of the US empire."
What's also missing in this picture is the silent Australian government, which has abandoned its citizen who is illegally held in a UK supermax prison, at the behest of the USA. Canberra - witnessing the irregular and abusive hounding of their citizen by three states - doesn't even pretend it's a democratic, independent state, but silently panders to Whitehall and Washington, accepting that it is an adjunct of the USUK empire.