Just show how much notice I take of other people's singing. I've never even noticed the mention of a Jew before. Equally amazed at the Oy Vey.

There are certainly deep seams of racism and anti-semitism that continue to be mined in Lancashire as with probably many other places.

I find myself torn between grudging allowing the mining, or suppressing it. I think in the long term the feelings need to be expressed in the open before there can be any solution - a sort of truth and reconciliation process. The problem is the expression does harm, particularly for people who appear to be in the target group. Suppression limits the harm today, but does it ever lead to the hatred going away or does it simply reappear at a later date in some more vile form.

If songs exist for anything is is to allow us to explore feelings, some of which we may share ourselves and others may be completely outside our experience or indeed opposite of our own. I do hope we don't become politically correct and cease singing songs that express other points of view. The audience clearly explored their anti-semitism however latent and hopefully some find a better way.