You have to have mining, fishing, travelling in the blood. My parents were teacher and insurance man, so what hope have I got?

At any folk gathering I have been to, retired teachers tend to be well represented and all will sing songs about mining, fishing and travelling. I know a retired librarian and someone who worked in an accounts department, both of whom write songs about trawlers.

I suppose the same must apply about politics. Just because someone sings a song about the hard working conditions of times gone by doesn't mean that they are nailing your colours to the mast as fighters for social equality. They may well be bourgeois capitalists, content to live of the backs of others.

DC