If we are going back to basics then this thread started with the Mustrad "Enthusisam."

I happen to think that rumours and anecdotes circulating around the folk world are often just that. Jim has spent many an hour refuting those about Ewan McColl and despite that those same rumours persist and are repeated as gospel. Having said that, I am happy to agree with Jim in all that he knows about personally and puts his name to.

As far as I am aware the grave dancing on Ewan MacColl started a quite a while after he was dead.

Mustrad chose to publish its anonymous allegations within three months of Peter Kennedy´s death, with, it seems, little thought for his family.

I think publishing anonymous allegations about people is wrong, I think publishing anonymous allegations about people and then asking for concrete evidence to back them up is disgraceful. And I think doing it within such a short time of someone´s death only compounds it.

Do you not agree Jim?