Thanks again Howard, I am with you on some of that. On the issue of the 'tradition' of Border Morris I will at the point of boring everybody again:

"They dance dances they have made up, to tunes that were almost certainly never used for morris and on instruments sometimes invented in the 20C. They wear costumes sometimes unrelated to the custom they claim to be reviving. But they hang on to the bit of tradition that has one foot in 19C music hall racism.

To be fair many sides in The Border Tradition - Bollin here in Manchester - go and see them they are brilliant - use a range of colour on their faces."

Not sure that we are in a position to: " allow black people greater latitude to take offence than in other situations."

More b*ll*cks has been talked about Morris than can ever be recalled - myself included - just read the 'claims' on Morris sides websites. Often they come to the point: "Since the actual evidence is slight anything can be believed" Oh no it can't!!!!!!!!!!!!

Does anybody care? Yes I do. I danced with two sides and I think we have a fine old tradition which is demeaned by people saying things that are not true and sometimes saying they don't care if people are offended. Almost no sides seek or cause offence but they don't half put some tripe on their websites don't they?