Bridge, I wasn't even going to waste my time with your hysteria but....
The paranoia that English Trad Arr. about to die is laughable at best.
I know who Lord Denning, just another idiot arsito as far as I'm concerned. Oh look there's 1954 rearing it's head again, look! this 2008. Your definition of what is and is not folk is vastly different from mine, I plugged my fiddle and mandolin in along many years ago, and I'm not about to unplug them because a few malcontents. If that makes me any less of a folk musician your eyes, too bad! I do songs from the entire British Isles and a handful of bluegrass as well, don't like, too bad. I don't have a problem with the Radio 2 Folk Awards. Seems Leige and Lief went waaaayyy over the heads of some.