Snowcloud: Gordon Brown on Afghanistan
Updated on 06 November 2009
Gordon Brown made a keynote speech today on the future of the mission in Afghanistan. See the full speech in an interactive word cloud and analyse what Brown's message really meant.
Seven British soldiers have died in Afghanistan in the last seven days. Five were shot dead by a "rogue" Afghan policeman and two died in Taliban explosions.
The deaths saw public opinion for the conflict wane as 73 per cent told Channel 4 News that they want British troops to be withdrawn from the country.
In an effort to reassure opinion and rally international support Gordon Brown held a keynote speech where he stressed the importance of the Afghan mission.
Run the cursor over the words below to see how often they appear. Then click the word to see it in the context of the full speech in text and video. You can also skip quickly between all its incidences in the speech.
About Snowclouds
Snowclouds are a Flash application designed by Channel 4 News's senior programme director, Martin Collett.
These interactive word clouds condense the text of a speech into one handy, interactive image. The more frequently a word is used during a speech, the bigger it is displayed. Clicking on the word brings up the transcript of the speech and shows the contexts in which the word was used.
The Snowcloud generator ignores common words such as "and", "the" and "there" to get a clearer picture of the distinct content of the speech.
As well as any word with fewer than five letters or, those listed here are ignored by this Snowcloud (not all of the words in the list necessarily cropped up in the speech).
