WLD, are you finished with your prolier than thou rant? Excellent. Because I'm not really sure what it has to do with the price of eggs.

As someone who is always giving out about the narrow boundaries that traditionalists place around folk music, I'd have thought that you would heartily approve of this year's R2 YFA winners. After all, they beat two young, unaccompanied traditional singers and a load of fiddle-dee-dee instrumental types, didn't they? So what's the problem?

Oh, that's right: it's that you and your mates have never been acknowledged in the same way. So that makes these kids crap, and the people that you rate as far superior talents (I repeat, that YOU rate - because this is ALWAYS about personal taste and opinion, and NOT about absolutes of quality, which are virtually imossible to quantify in an artistic context) victims. You clearly feel you've been fucked over. Sounds like you ought to write an English folk song about it.