My point was that whether you are English or Irish is likely to affect your approach to an argument on the subject.

With The Wild Rover it can work either way. I'm always very happy to point out that it's really an English song. But I think that's more because I like to get these things right than because I've that much against it as a song.

Being black, or whatever, can be as relevant in a place like this as, for example, whether you're a Catholic or a Jew or what country you are from, or whether you are male or female. That means, sometimes it's totally irrelevant, sometimes it's highly relevant, other times it's somewhere in between.