Eliza Carthy makes voice

Anthony Barnett (London, OK): Eliza Carthy talks about her new album, how working with corporate music is like trying to breath underwater and tells Alexis Petridis she needs to keep the BNP out of her hair. Is there a coded warning to Paul Kingsnorth in his debate with Vron Ware: "She also admonishes folkies who romanticise "the idyll of the past" ("What bit of the past was good? Slave-based capitalism? Syphilis?"), is disarmingly frank about the difficulties of spending much of her 20-year career working with her parents, and talks passionately about the need for English culture to be supported, before worrying that she sounds like a Daily Mail reader