OK, I know the "English" are difficult to pin down, that we are a mongrel race etc etc and I'm not embarking on that tricky debate but I think we understand what I meant. How many of you have been to multi-cultural festivals in England, organised with the best of intentions to promote cultural understanding etc (which I wholeheartedly support) at which there has been absolutely no representative "English" (or however you want to define it) cultural activity at all. Line dancing - yes, morris/rapper/social/playford/mumming - no! Is this reverse institutional racism or PC gone mad? But people like line dancing you cry! They might like "English" dance forms if they got to know them. What is it with a country where the national broadcasting corporation, our own dear BBC, can dismiss our native culture with derisive laughter. I refer to a recent edition of Excess Baggage on Radio 4 in which the reporter despatched to WOMAD seemed quite happy that there was no representation of "English" culture at this WORLD music event. I can't remember his exact words but it was something to the effect that c**p morris dancing would be all we had to offer - gales of derisive laughter. Yes some of it is c**p, but done well, and particularly in context, it can be breathtaking. And what about English tunes and song (we do have some of our own you know). I'll stop my tirade now but I think you can judge how strongly I feel on this one.