I was thinking it might be an idea to send Kim Howells a Christmas Greeting saying "Hands off our music", so I tried to visit the UK Government website, to try to check up what his job title is and so forth.

Up comes this message: ukonline.gov.uk is temporarily unavailable. Service will be restored as soon as possible. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. Please try again later.

This seems very appropriate somehow. They mouth off about the importance of communication and open government and that, but when you get down to it "ukonline.gov.uk is temporarily unavailable"...