Jusst reviving this thread to say that McKinnon has been granted another judicial review - this time to examine whether the British home secretary was justified in ignoring psychiatric evidence in allowing extradition to proceed.

So for the moment he is still safe from the very long arm of US justice. By the time the judicial review has run its course the Conservative Party will probably be in government, and that party is already oposed to McKinnon's extradition and committed to renegotiating the UK-US extradition treaty with a view to introducing some degree of reciprocity.

Here's an interesting take on Westminster's supine relationship with Washington: Longest ever game of pass the parcel