Things like the publuc reaction to Diana's death and the recent fuel protests, demonstrate that there is a need for something we can ALL feel and belong to.

It's just that whatever that may be, it is not the thing that those who carefully try to exclude all other musical influences from, refer to as English Traditional Music.

The link has been broken, the music has been stolen and it is not now possible to repair or to return it. It has compensations, in that The English are now free to encompass everyone elses music and traditions.