Yes WLD, I thought you might say something to the effect that only posh people enjoy Shakespeare. Though this wasn't the case in the bard's time, and doesn't need to be now, given appropriate production and venue (he does get performed outside Stratford and the West End, I believe).

As the button delicately pointed out, it's a short but perilous step from dismissing certain sections of the arts as too highbrow, to suggesting that "working class types" are too thick to "get it".

Traditional song "socially divisive"? Was Fred Jordan upper or middle class, then? Walter Pardon? Do you mean the songs themselves, or the people who like them? Two different arguments, and I disagree with you on both, but really we're getting way off the topic here.

I'd come down to the Three Stags - a good pub, and only half an hour away - and spoil your evening by singing "Long A-Growing" if I wasn't looking after my son tonight (we've videoed "Night of the Demon" in readiness).

I do 'Mighty Quin' as well; what was Mr. Z. on when he wrote it??