Our MPs? The MP for Pontypridd (which includes Miskin) is Kim "I hate folk music" Howells. You can bet he won't help you now, and I bet he's laughing all over his devious, ignorant face - I would just love to knock some commonsense, decency and justice into his ugly gob.

I used to to be a sub-editor on the South Wales Echo, the Bristol Evening Post and many other daily papers, and I read with mounting concern all the growing attacks written by journalists on our serious papers about the thoroughly draconian and moronic restrictions caused by the Licensing Act. Even the Daily Mail reported the amazing story about this charity band being charged a phenomenal amount of of money by some little Hitler so that they could play Jingle Bells (which is not, according to the Act, religious music.)

And I shall look forward with increasing anticipation (less of your spleen, Bubblyrat) to Plaid Cymru gaining a majority in Wales at some future election so that they can kick out The Licensing Act and any other mindless nuisance that hinders the spread of culture. It was trac, the All-Wales agency for folk development, that called the Licensing Act "a thoroughly bad law". I wonder which administration put it together?