You say you're not disparaging Jim. But you say that you know what the folk culture of our islands is, and all these other people (many of us having spent a lifetime in folk clubs) know nowt.

Its so dismissive. So negative.

If the music you love has such inherent strengths (and I believe it does). It really does not gain from shit slinging like this. In fact, it detracts - and sends out ALL the wrong messages.

History will decide what is our folksong. You are not the arbiter in this matter, Neither is some bloody silly 1954 committee of interested parties.