"quite frankly,I shall continue to sing The Recruited Collier as Bert collected it,because it is a fine song.
It would be ridiculous to stop singing it because it was allegedly not traditional"

Dick, no one said you should stop singing it. If you like it, sing it. That's really not the issue.


"as a communist/socialist he would have believed that the end justified the means."

More Machiavelli than Marx, surely?