Countess, thank you for your wise words - I will try to stop worrying.

I suppose, Jim, if our music can survive Dave Harker it can survive anything!

I think that this is turning out to be an interesting and illuminating thread - and I don't violently disagree with anyone. Nevertheless, no-one, so far, has really examined political motives (lights blue touch-paper and retires hastily ... will it go out, or will it be a 'damp squib'?).

So far, no trolls!