A little addendum to this thread, and others on the Pro / Anti War with Iraq subject.

The great musical Glossop pub, the Globe hosts a folk session with "Last Chance Bourrée" (of which I am not a member, but it is a session open to everybody) every Monday night in the downstairs room. Last Monday, it also hosted a public debate upstairs on the Iraq question, with Tom Leavitt, the MP for the High Peak constituency, which includes Glossop.

[I stuck my head round the door, briefly. Tom, a decent chap really, was trying to steer a course between some proto-fascists accusing him of cowardice equal to that of Chamverlain's over Czechoslovakia, and some committed anti-war people accusing him of comlplicity in mass murder. He fell back on anodyne matters of Parliamentary procedure ("there will be an adjournment debate on this subject ... ").]

I was urged by one or two of the anti-war people I know, to serenade Tom on his way downstairs with either "The Band played Waltzing Matilda", or "Where have all the Flowers gone?". I declined on the grounds of incompetence and technicalities ("It doesn't sound very good on a DADGAD ...").