Oh.... I thought Joe had intervened exclusively on your behalf McG.

I have to disagree with you about the likelihood of McKinnon's extradition. I'd say he's off the hook now. Alan Johnson himself (UK home secretary) has obviously been fairly uncomfortable about the whole affair, and I would expect the JR to take account of the parliamentary and popular mood, notwithstanding that it must also take account of what parliament intended when this bizarre treaty was drafted.

But in any case the imminent change in government which is now almost inevitable will be enough to keep this rather sad individual safely on home turf. His own MP is odds on to become the justice minister in a Tory government; he and his party have opposed McKinnon's extradition all along (as has the UK's third party, which could hold sway in the event of a hung parliament), and the Tories are also committed to scrapping the treaty as presently framed.

On the whole, rather an unsatisfactory way for the UK to save face.