That madeira song, I've always taken to be a glancing reference to the Landru case. Not date rape, but homicide. Like I've said, I GOT SOME STICK AT THE tOLPUDDLE Festival from a woman who thought my George Joseph Smith song was trivialising violence to women, treating it as a joke.

its an odd sort of business. That song where the violence to a violent husband seems very popular these days.

I don't know what to make of it. It makes me feel very old and out of sync with the times.