Vic Smith, the magazine you recommend for our reading started off as The Southern Rag, then became Folk Roots and then became fRoots. There is a progression there for all to see, when does it just become Roots?
I am aware of the sequence of names. I have every issue in sequence on a book shelf by my computer and find it a consistently useful research tool - especially as the magazine has a alphabetic list of features from all its 418 issues in its website.

May I politely suggest to the Observer that he does some observing? The current direction of the magazine has the British folk music as its core and always has done, Articles in the current issue include musings on the Folk Awards, on Katy Spicer CEO of the EFDSS. Articles on interesting folk newcomers Thom Ashcroft and Nick Hart, the folk dance band Banter, Rowan Rheingans, Jim Moray's new folk-rock band False Lights, Martin Hayes and The Gloaming, A look back at Dobells and other folk records shops from the 1960s, a retrospective on Buffy St, Marie, Cath & Phil Tyler, as well as a massive inclusive list of the UK's folk festivals with all the contact details. Name me a British magazine that has a wider coverage of folk music.

What the magazine does not believe - and I am fully agree with its policy - is that folk and traditional music stops at Dover. I often despair of the Brexity Little Englander views that I see expressed by this country's Mudcatters. Some years ago, I was depressed to read on this board that he didn't read fRoots any more because it was "full on Mongolian Nose Flute players." No, this was not Boris Johnson, but someone who has contributed to this thread.