Steve might well be the grand druid of glastonbury tor for all I know, but I don't think he was right to refer to the leveller as follows:

"Apart from a tiny bunch of BNP nutters, I see little sign of a third reich.
Leveller, that's near enough what people said in Germany in the 1920s."

Just seen this. I think I do understand what Steve is saying and, up to a point, agree with him. We have to be vigililant about allowing the perversions peddled by the BNP from gaining a stronghold and subverting our Engl;ish culture. I suppose I have a certain optimism and a faith that, as in the time of Mosley, the people of Britain (not just England) will stand against this sort of extremism. Hopefuly, too, we will have learnt from history.

I suppose, on the whole, 'culture, is always a work in progress and, like folk music, cannot be set in aspic. My wish is that we embrace the best of the past and welcome innovation where it is not destructive or so insidious as to pervert out inherent national sensibilities (oops, sorry if that sounds ridiculously pompous - cue Elgar!).