"Well...one of the things I do with regards to folk music, is I write about it, tens of thousands of words about it....can't stop actually...because I love it so much."

Don't we know it. But that is all you do, Lizzie - go on and on because you love the sound of your own voice. No one takes you or your rantings seriously, lizzie, except you. BTW, do they count as thousands of words if they're basically the same few sentences over and over and over again?

Get out there and DO something for the culture you purport to love so much. Your repeated rants are just so much virtual auto-eroticism.

All I said on the BBC board, as you well know, is that I don't like SoH, and I'd rather have pins in my eyes than sit through a set of theirs. It's a throwaway turn of phrase, not "verbal abuse". I did not say they should be crucified for crimes against folk. I did not say that their children should be burnt, or that they are ugly or they smell, or that they are bad people, nor did I even cast aspesions on their musicianship. So this "personal attack" is all in your own (quite scary) head. I have even made it clear that Phil Beer is a very nice man. As it happens, when I was married I even persuaded my husband, who is a national newspaper journalist, to interview Steve Knightley for a piece on the West Country. So once again, this vendetta of yours is purely a product of your imagination.

But personally, as an individual, I do not like their music. There you go. Just an opinion, which I am free to express regardless of what I do for a job. You took exception to this, lizzie, and in your completely bonkers way, decided you would repeatedly rake me over the coals for it. If that's the best you can do, love, find another hobby horse. And stop trying to twist the situation and manipulate it for your own benefit.