WAV - a Fascist is someone who believes that humanity might only thrive when subjected to the repressive regime of a supreme authority. In all your published writings this is what we see, and that is what I question. A Racist is someone who believes humanity should be segregated by ethnicity and that all immigration / emigration curtailed in fear of cultural and ethnic contamination. In your published writings this is what we see, and that is what I question. These aren't dirty tactics, they are honest criticisms and evaluations of your Published Ideas - which you can only answer by resorting to personal insult.

If you say (as you do) that:

Folk music IS meant to be local/regional/national. Our forebears were loyal to this when they formed the English Folk Dance and Song Society, as have been contemporary Scots by forming a Degree in Scottish Traditional Music. Further, I'm told several of our earliest folk-clubs strongly encouraged participants to select from their own culture

what else am I to think other than here is a man who believes in a supreme dictatorial authority to curtail what he obviously regards as extreme recalcitrance (one of your favourite words) in the UK Folk Scene? Likewise:

World-music stalls and stages should be places where folkies of different nationality present different unfused music to each other.

An English octogenarian has told me that at school - whilst one or two Scottish dances were learnt - at least 90% of their dancing was English Country Dance.

If folkies must test their technique by improvising on/"doing something with" a traditional tune, then, in my opinion, they should begin their performance with a run-through of just the top-line melody – otherwise, there would be no oral-tradition of tunes! Alternatively, they could try the composer or sacred music of their nation, as well as its folk-tunes.

As I've said in verse, English culture is taking a hammering and, when people lose their own culture, society suffers.

All these statements are as culturally dictatorial as they are inaccurate - they all run contrary to cultural reality; they are your somewhat idiosyncratic interpretations of things you don't really understand turned into quite disturbing absolutes. How else am I meant to understand the author of such odious inhumane bullshit other than as a fascist? You are sold on your own righteousness on things you clearly know nothing about; year in, year out, you repeat the same weary old rhetoric, as life flows on, and culture with it.

You've been told how in error you are regarding English Country Dancing; and I'll tell you that 98% of what I do musically is pure improvisation, even in the singing of E. Trads. That's how I do things musically - I improvise, therefore I am. This doesn't effect the oral-tradition, as far as it exists, or ever existed at all, pre, post, or neo-revival. These things aren't written in stone; they are fluid, things change, they move on, the essence of all is the organic process of becoming in which all things exist - folk music included.

As for English Culture taking a hammering - this, I fear, is the Big One - the one you've never accounted for other than to point out that England was a more English place 50 years ago... So what's it all about, WAV? How is English Culture taking a hammering? And how are we suffering as a result?