Well, well. Once again my attention is drawn to a below-stairs thread by someone who thinks I ought to know about it. Almost certainly, I don't need to know about it (I've seen more than enough of this sort of crap already) I will doubtless regret it, but here goes.

As for an alleged "anti-christian bias" on Mudcat, I have noticed one or two threads started in defence of busy-body health care workers who tried to "pray" for their patients and were rightly disciplined by their trusts for contravening the terms of their contracts. From what I read, those who backed the trusts' actions were simply upholding the principle of a secular health service. A second strand of this bumbling brand of hypocrisy is that well-known singer-songwriter renowned for his anti-abortion lyrics. It is surely a matter of legitimate debate on this forum whether this artist should be booked at major festivals and "religion" does not, necessarily, enter into it. And the third strand is that of the "upstanding (they think), patronising, sexist blokes who preface their posts with how prominent they are in their christian communities (I'm NOT talking about Joe Offer in this instance) and thus have some sort of right to pontificate on women's dress and behaviour and to be as sexually predatory towards them as they want.

Oddly (or not), all these perhaps at first sight unconnected groupings fall miraculously under the dubious GEFF (Good Enough For Folk) umbrella. Trad music (American & British) is what this forum is supposed to be about. And what I (and quite a lot of others) are concerned about is upholding its quality and excellence and not tolerating its dumbing down.

Joe Offer has made the extraordinary statement the MBS George, the now-exposed Chippenham would-be BNP councillor, "never said a nasty or bigoted word at Mudcat". Not so. Long before I knew that she was a fucking fascist (but not before my history of opposition was well-known) she was laying into me and others whose stance was, roughly, "don't play or sing out till you can". Must be a reflection of the warped brand of what constitutes democracy in BNP circles. And an excellent reason for making sure they don't get near to hijacking our music.

Oh, and if anyone's interested, that's 100.