Guest, I know nothing about this whole business but being cynical about human nature, I could well suggest from the content so far in this thread that if "DB is getting increasingly isolated, he has lost his Scottish shop, lost trust of artists who were friends and workmates etc." being seen to do a good deed would help to restore favour... Then on the other hand he could be a reformed character...

Then again, perhaps your view point is valid but I tend to take comments from unidentified people who seem to go against the flow of general feeling as nothing more that trolls.

Jon