Lizzie you are always suggesting that people ought to be getting off their lazy, apolitical arses and starting some moral crusade or other...and now you basically want Dave to organise it for you?? People who lead movements don't wait for other people to find them media attention, or supporters, or anything else - THEY are the ones who "damn well do it."

Take FAF as a very small example. The organisation is now thriving, people are wearing the shirts, we had a presence at the recent AFO conference, artists are using the FAF logo on their new releases, big plans for FAF week next April are underway - it's all good. But we didn't wait for anyone else to do it for us. We just did it. And when we didn't have the skills we needed to do certain things, we went out and found the people who could - we didn't wait for them to come to us.

You were going to start your own folk radio programme and your own festival recently. How are those going?

I would suggest that the "legal reasons" why BBC Devon couldn't broadcast your rant were probably something to do with you not being able to provide any specific evidence for your allegations. Anybody can shout about stuff, and LOTS of people do, which is why the media can't give every single one of them a platform. But if you really want to get sustained media attention for something, you have to build up a dossier of evidence and present it to them. That takes time, and research (not just googling). No one pays you for it. But if you persevere, you'll be successful.