"if it ain't broke, don't fix it". I agree. What's more I have no quarrel with an organisation which concentrates on English, or even British, song and dance, whilst acknowledging and highlighting the fact that every other nation on earth has a folk culture which is just as valuable as ours

They could of course always change the name to The Institute For The Study of Workers' Songs. Radical workers' songs, that is. There's an idea worth campaigning for.