Give your Dad my regards...

Al is trying to see reason here but missing the point. The comment that folk music is about the underdog being a point in case. Too many songs celebrating fox hunting for that to wash. Too many Dylans on celebrity rich lists.

Akenaton does make a valid point about globalisation. In fact, it is so succinct it completely contradicts his wishes for an independent Scotland. Big governments are needed to stand up to big multinationals.

Governments may set the agenda and may interfere but with every government since the war, every child in The UK has the opportunity to strive to where they wish to be. His incessant rambling on about nobody gets a chance just exacerbates knocking the stuffing out of people.

Your aspirations may be whatever they are, but I doubt anybody told a careers teacher they aspired to sitting in their underpants watching Jeremy Kyle. Yet many adults, as exemplified by Akenaton, seem to be happy letting kids look forward to such an existence. Drugs help the numbing experience of watching it, apparently.

Al. Just because I dismiss Akenaton for his awful bigotry doesn't mean I can't dismiss him for doom mongering. In some ways it is worse because decent people won't become bigots by reading his diatribe but plenty are taken in by those who blame everybody but themselves.