Last of the Summer Wine is still going on. It all seems very like the kind of get togethers and the kind of people in sessions in English pubs.

Unfortunately the kind of melancholy cheerful quality associated with the English traditionally is being overlaid by all kinds of other less appealing qualities. A sort of in-your-face attitude which shows itself in all kinds of places - football hooligans, politicians, comedians, entrepreneurs, journalists, broadcasters... Even some folk singers. And in most cases, they aren't very good at it either. Maybe it's just a phase they are going through.