Fred McCormick

I said bemoan, which is a different word entirely to celebrate.

Let's not get into a war of words, I'm sure we're on the same side. What concerned me was that you didn't seem to include our own traditions in the things we should celebrate.

I have seen evidence that the rabid right wing is latching on to traditional English music to use to further its own agenda and if we don't defend it they will succeed and it will become tainted in the same way as German folk music was tainted by the Nazis. The best way to defend it is as part of a multicultural Britain, alongside other traditions.