no the Irish and the Jamaicans - they aren't po-faced about their music. but they're po-faced about being Irish, American, and Jamaican - in a way that only the most humourless conservative Englishmen are about being English.

And its that inclusiveness that makes our folkclubs so special. Being English is special but not in the way that we need to make a conscious effort and hold our hand on our heart every time the national anthem is played.

We've been here for too many years to get insecure about who we are, and to need phoney aides de memoire about what it took to hold on to who we are.