"Apart from the Magpie's Nest, which isn't really a folk club!"

Disagree with you there. I'd almost go so far as to say you were wrong.

"reading this magazine, you could very easily get the impression that the UK folk scene either does not exist, or that the editor hates it with such a passion that he deliberately ignores it."

Disagree with you there. I'd almost go so far as to say you were wrong.

"Wouldn't it be nice if the magazine visited the folk roots of its home country as well?"

I would say it does.

"fRoots is about commercially recorded music, not grassroots performers (from anywhere) who aren't going to buy advertising"

Its focus might be on recorded music - in that way it's no different from the vast majority of other music magazines on earth – but I think the implication behind the reference to advertising is a little snide. Particularly as the issues of fRoots I've read contain many of the names – big or small – I see cropping up regularly on the programmes of British folk clubs.