This has come up on another thread, but people who are (not unreasonably) fed up with Kim Howells might miss it.

Anyway, Billy Bragg is on the Panel for Question Time on BBC1 TV tonight (Feb 6th), and there seems a good chance that the matter of theLicencing Bill, and the restrictions on live music it threatens to impose on us in Engkand and Wales, might be one of the topics that get discussed.

Billy Bragg has been actively involved in kicking up a fuss about this. This could be quite important, since people watch Question Time who don't read the few papers which have had anything about this.

Question Time can be watched via the internet, and they keep it on archive at least for the next week - the programme is on at 10.35 ourt time in Engkand, which makes it 4.35 on the East Coast of Americam and so forth.

The site has provision for interactive comments duringbthe programme, and for feedback afterwards.

I've sent an email saying I hope they'll discuss the ban on live musiuc in public places in England and Wales which don't have entertainment licences, and I hope a few more people will do the same. Maybe it won't make any difference, but it can't do any harm, and it's free.