What is it about Ewan MacColl whereby he inspires such f/rigid devotion in his disciples even unto this day? He was, after all, just a man, but I get the impression of something a lot deeper here - as if his devotees await his Secong Coming on the Day of Righteous Judgement and Revolution when all that dared question his methods, myths & motives will be summarily dealt with with a bullet in the back on the head. And how dare I, or anyone else for that matter, stoop so low as to express so vile a thing as an opinion, which quickly gets seized upon, taken out of context and blown up into a heresy in a whirlwind of such humbling devotion and righteous ire. I'm impressed, Jim - seriously your fundamentalist fury confirms my general feelings on the religiosity of cerrtain aspects of Folk in which no one dares hold an opinion without having first been told what to think in advance. Meanwhile, out here in the real world, one may question the historical basis of Anti Arpartheid, or of CND, or Nam, or the legality of the miner's strike if it comes to that, but in the simplistic monochrome world of MacCollist Absolutism one would not dare differ from the party line in dread fear of the consequences. Discussion ends, it would seem, quite literally, right here.