If 'hear (sic) today, gone tomorrow' is not sneering, I don't know what is.

You happen to like Jez Lowe, well so do I. The fact remains that he was not nominated for an award which is why he could not win one. My suggestion that you challenged the nomination system was meant to be constructive. It is certainly what I intend to do.

Presumably you mean that you voted for him in the 'Best Live Act' category which was the only one open to public vote and which appeared to have been swung by massive block voting.

I hold no brief for the Folk Awards, believing them to have very little to do with what is actually occurring and regard them, as they stand, merely as an industry catching up process.

Arguments, to have any validity, must be based upon fact.. There is little point in attacking me because you dislike the constitution of a BBC-organised jamboree. You should rather join me in lobbying for change.