"It's
public acknowledgement for a job well done."
It's nothing of the sort and fine well you know it
If TD had not been rightly/wrongly quoted in a newspaper article do you HONESTLY believe we would have had 5 pages of "Jolly well done sir" in this manner............how many other threads have been started extolling the virtues of the many who received such awards
We often denigrate the British press for their carrion like manner but I do think a few of the posters in this thread need to step back and consider whether the vitriolic nature of their post are REALLY appropriate when made toward someone who has suffered in the way TD so obviously has