Assange: the wrong man, but the right cause

In such a media-soaked age there aren’t many public figures that divide opinion quite as starkly as Julian Paul Assange, founder of Wikileaks.

To some, he is a heroic warrior for press freedom and brave scourge of corrupt governments, to others he is an unlikeable man, a conspiracy theorist and a stooge of the Russian government. Coverage of his eviction from the Ecuadorean embassy last week even highlighted Assange’s slovenly personal appearance and ...