It vertainly wasn't a joke when I was a teenager wandering the streets of Manchester with my very second- hand Exakta VP SLR- my first serious camera. I came across a Morris side dancibng in St Peter's Square- I don't think I'd ever seen dance so exciting. Sadly, the young blokes who danced then are even older than me now.

It became a joke when self- regarding overpaid twerps took control of our media, and the sheep followed their every word like the idiots they are. "Russell Brand" says it all really. No, not quite. "Jeremy Clarkson" says the rest.