"I am a left winger, but vehemently anti-Stalinist"

Me too.

Glad to hear EM moved away from it to. Too many left wingers of that generation held onto it like they were the last band of zealots shoring up a crumbling religion (I remember one telling me that when the tanks rolled in Prague in 68, it was a fine example of "socialist diplomacy". for a moment I thought he was joking...).

I really like his Bothy Ballads album - Lamachree and Megrum is wonderful. I wish he'd stomped on the feckin' ocarina though!