To add insult to injury, The Sun has named it after the Foreign Secretary and his cabinet minister brother, David and Ed Miliband.
Category number 2 is interesting. Support to the Armed Forces
The winner of this award will be a civilian – a civil servant, a contractor or just an ordinary member of the public – who has provided invaluable help to the Armed Forces.
Will apologists Geoff Hoon, John Reid or Des Browne get the nod for their unstinting work ensuring essential military equipment was always at hand? Maybe Gordon or even Tony Blair….
Gordon Brown’s visits overseas – New animation for Channel 4 News.
Why did you come here from another site that was previously hosting the full animation ? – Explanation below.
Note – If you came here from another site that was previously hosting the full animation, here’s the explanation :
The other sites were running the animation from my server which, due to their traffic, was hitting me very hard and affecting this site’s performance, bandwidth and ultimately my pocket.
I won’t get into the complexities of cache-ing but even if someone visited the commercial sites and didn’t press play, the whole animation is downloaded from my server.
So, rather than remove or rename the file (or replace it with something dodgy), I thought it best to provide an intro giving the viewer (with the necessary notification) the opportunity to view the animation here.
While it’s nice to have one’s work appreciated, it becomes a bit of a problem when, not only is my bandwidth taking a major hit but a commercial site with all its funded resource uses my content without considering the impact on my own self-funded operation.
This can also affect my relationships with those who may have commissioned the work when they may think, because it is run from my server, that I am condoning its use.
I hope you appreciate that my redirection is not a cynical ploy but a way of minimising the effect on my server without damaging any relationship with viewers from other sites.
I’ve said before that I don’t have a problem with non-commercial sites using most of my work as long as there is a credit and a link back to this blog.
How much does The MOD spend on legal fees ?
More deaths, more inquests but antique aircraft are still safe to fly and the Government is doing a wonderful job of supporting fighting forces – within the limits of allocated budgets of course – while £2.3 billion is being spent on refurbishing the MOD’s Whitehall offices.
