How long will it be before we have a national curriculum for music which will seek avoid any "politically incorrect" or "politically embarrassing" songs.

Too late. C# and his mates got there ahead of them - pretty much everything ever written down is already bowdlerised.

Surely the whole point of singing is that you sing the songs that you and your mates want to sing, and these constantly changes as you hear new songs, or as your attitudes change?

Not when you're a kid. When you're a kid, you learn from what other people teach you, and if the grown-ups sing then you sing the same thing.

It's great that they're doing this. Even if it's only a small cross-section of British folk-songs (which is all they'll manage), it's got to be better than nothing.

Graham.