I met Humphrey for the first time a few weeks ago and had a chance to talk to him for the first time since the music ban. Some of you may remember that he wrote me two letters (the text of which used to be on this site and on various others) at the time and returned the phone call that I made to him at his home.

While you may disagree with what he has done - and in this instance there is no suggestion that it's a 'don't allow Morris dancers' directive from Head Office - you sure aren't going to change anything if you close any hope of dialogue by pointless protest. All you'll do is to embarrass and annoy managers of the pubs who have precious little power apart from towing the line as they are mostly concerned with keeping their jobs.