Perhaps Shaw you and your pals cannot come out with your cliché riddled ideological arguments above the line so you come out with none of the lies, misrepresentations and myths above the line. I do read threads above the line and I do follow what is going on. It may come as a great surprise to you that while below the line there is probably nothing that Jim Carroll and I have in common - above the line however Jim and myself would generally on all topics appear to be in lock-step agreement on everything to do with what we see as being folk music. Your take on the Wheatcroft thing is based on a lie, you contributed to the WWI was No Mans Land thread after Keith A had accurately quoted the passage from Wheatcroft's article and you did not comment or contest the point that Keith A was making - i.e. that the work of AJP Taylor and Alan Clark and the views they espoused had, in the light of subsequent information, been shown to be at worst, simply wrong, at least, ill-informed. It was only after Keith made the passing reference to an accurately quoted passage on another thread that you decided to seize upon an error of omission that Keith A acknowledged and corrected immediately it was brought to his attention. Even then Shaw you refused point blank to discuss the content of Wheatcroft's article, instead you started a three year epic dancing on the head of a pin concerning Keith's error of omission and in that time NOT ONCE did you concede that he had acknowledged the error and corrected it, instead you embarked on a deliberate campaign of propagating the lie that he had done neither - that Shaw is utterly despicable, dishonest and cowardly at "Master-Class" level.
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