Having read right through the thread I can only imagine that Al has some kind of agenda focussed on the editor of fRoots. I regularly visit the website and read the magazine. Not all of it reflects my interests but a lot of it does. I suppose that I am fortunate to be free of the xenophobia that appears to inform Al's response to the magazine. I like being introduced to different kinds of music even if I do not always warm to it. Music generally has benefitted from cross-pollination - I really liked Afro Celt Sound System for example and Paul Simon is currently touring a reunion of Gracelands with many of the original African musicians to much acclaim. At the same time I have enjoyed many concerts of pure traditional British folk music. fRoots has made a great contribution to folk music, certainly more than Al Whittle or Richard Bridge - neither of whom I have heard of other than through this forum.