""God knows, the revival has become anodyne enough through singers being made feel uncomfortable by singing certain types of song, without erecting yet another hurdle.""

If any of us were saying that singers should be discouraged from singing those songs, your comment might have some point.

Since the responses are based in a belief that singers should not be required or expected to sing those songs, it does not.

Making special cases an argument for a generalisation works both ways.

Audiences for Ewan McColl, Pete Seeger and later Billy Bragg, were, and are quite aware that a program of political comment was and is assured.

They went in the full knowledge of that fact, to listen to that program.

A folk club organiser deciding to book McColl or Bragg should, if he knows his job, be aware of that and if his members don't like political content, he should have the sense, either to change his mind, or to find something else to do with his spare time.

Don T.