""Now all we need to know is how to recognise the Folk Police. Anybody got any recognition clues?""

For people who use the terms "Folk Police", or "Folk Nazi", it seems to fit the definition "Anyone who disagrees with my specifically modern and contemporary views on what constitutes "Folk Music"!"

"AGB" ("Anything Goes Brigade"), and "Singer songwhiner" (sometimes "Snigger Snogwriter") serve exactly the same purpose for those on the other side of the argument.

Both are wrong IMHO, and at some so far unfathomed point between lies approximate truth, and the reason why it remains undiscovered is simply that neither side has ever been willing to approach the centre ground to find it.

Don T.