Just heard today that the Song Day, which has been run by Barry Goodman every March for the last few years, in the Sunrunner pub in Hitchin, is going to have to happen somewhere else instead, if it happens at all. Apparently the pub's licence doesn't cover allowing a bunch of people to sit around in an upstairs room singing songs.

I hope someone is collating all these instances of things winding down because of the new law, because we were promised there would be a honest process to reviewing the results, with a view to modifying the law if it causes these kinds of things to happen.

Some MPs appear actually to believe that kind of government promise. Or at least they claim to do so. (Then they talk about "the luxury of hindsight" and how no one could have expected things to happen that were actually predicted by everyone who knew anything about it. Singing, drinking, wars...)