Don Firth

Monsieur Mollusk, I believe the point that Ruth is making is summed up in the adage that silence in the face of nonsense, particularly malevolent nonsense, implies agreement.

Up to a point, Don, but if you follow that to the letter, you would be involved in an awful lot of arguments. You have to do a bit of filtering. I feel that WAV is getting far more attention than he deserves. The man is ridiculous and the appropriate response is ridicule. Logical argument is wasted on him.

There are genuine threats to the UK folk scene from the far right and I have done my bit to speak out against them. I took it on myself to let everyone who needed to know that a chap active on the local folk scene was a spokesman for this organisation http://www.steadfasttrust.org.uk/. We don't see a lot of him these days and I keep an eye out for him.

As far as I can tell, WAV only represents himself and having so many worthwhile people arguing with him probably makes him feel important.