"Let's leave this forum to bland MOR tripe and those who want to wish each other 'happy birthday' and other such inane irrelevancies!

Yes, a point well made.

But how do we retain the historic integrity of English Trad-Arts, while simultaniously ensuring their freedom from contamination from those contemporary political agendas which would seek to usurp them and utitise them to their cause?

Excuse me for sounding like a numbbnuts. I probably am one! ;-)