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🆘 Need some urgent help on this Rejoin EU poll. Vote and RT ✅ www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

EXPOSED: How Viktor Orbán Bankrolled the Network Around Reform UK As Hungary’s Prime Minister suffers a historic electoral defeat, Byline Times maps out how his government’s funding arm channelled hundreds of thousands of pounds into organisations at the heart of Britain’s hard right.

📌 ICYMI — The Neo-Nazi Enforcer Who Helped Build Peter Thiel’s Online Influence Empire New Epstein-linked revelations show how neo-Nazi operative Andrew Auernheimer became a crucial link between Peter Thiel and the online far-right subcultures waging ‘memetic warfare’ against their enemies

Comparing Easter messages

chrisrowbury.substack.com/p/chris-rowb... April's monthly music round-up is out now. Includes: Recording the world's oldest song; Playing music in childhood linked to a sharper mind in old age; 12-year-old master of the Georgian panduri; Song of the month - A week before Easter; and much more!

chrisrowbury.com/london Booking for my London harmony singing day on Saturday 9 May is now open on my website. 50% of the places have already gone! The more the merrier - especially bass/baritone voices.

Here I am contemplatiing another fabulous year of singing. These are all my one-off singing days for 2026. I'm kicking off in London and booking for that is now open. You can find full details, and when booking opens for each singing day, on my website: chrisrowbury.com/singing-work...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bidt... Thought this was appropriate this week!

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I wrote about the findings from the inquiry about the impact of the pandemic on the NHS, and the mistakes of the first year. I hope it makes you angry - it should make us all angry. open.substack.com/pub/christin...

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chrisrowbury.substack.com/p/chris-rowb... My March monthly music round-up is out now. Includes: Choir ten commandments; The power of the pause; A brief history of pearl-diving music; The extraordinary life of singer Jake Thackray; song of the month - "The first time ever I saw your face"; and more!

I like the sound of this guy. Whatever happened to him?

Tommy Robinson, who has convictions for assault, using a fake passport, mortgage fraud and contempt of court for repeating false allegations against refugee in breach of an injunction... meets Trump administration and gets a tour of the State Department www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

A reminder, one day ahead of a by-election in which the Greens are favourites to defeat Reform, that the Daily Mail owner's wife recently donated £50,000 to Nigel Farage's party

🔴Revealed: Reform UK Matt Goodwin’s Academic Ties to Rebranded Nazi Eugenics Front Reform’s Gorton and Denton candidate, who has said that genetics will expose the “inherent differences between groups” has links to multiple organisations tied to discredited racist pseudoscience

Ladies and gentlemen, Please meet Tim Nott, the chair of the Reform UK Party in Bath. He likes to do..."acting." (yes, that is him.)

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Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds. The files reveal it was something far darker Extraordinary read by @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for the Nerve on Epstein, academia and eugenics www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

Worth a listen: Elinor Harrison (Washington University) on @npr.org discussing benefits of singing. Key points 💡Evidence of music-making dating 40,000+ years 💡Neanderthal bone structure suggests 60,000-year singing capacity 💡Darwin's speculation about musical protolanguage NPR:

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"Switzerland’s military has terminated its contract with Palantir… following a security audit… concluded that U.S. intelligence agencies could potentially access sensitive Swiss defense data… significant reputational warning for the data analytics firm" www.newscase.com/palantirs-sw... #R4Today

Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’ 1/

Resistance choirs are apparently becoming a thing.

chrisrowbury.com/singing-week... Booking for my weekends in July, September and October closes tomorrow Thursday 5 February.

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chrisrowbury.substack.com/p/chris-rowb... My February monthly music round-up is out now. Includes: Using bird song to test hearing; Find out more about gospel music; One guy impersonates 43 famous singers; Song of the month from the Cantu a Tenore tradition of Sardinia; and much more! Subscribe now.

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John's latest Blog: Masterstroke. Can music really have healing powers? bit.ly/463VSXy

15 years ago today was the first night of the (sadly no more) OK Chorale in Woodbridge. They were some fun times!

We did predict it. And we were called alarmist.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNc4... #greenland Choral singing is an integral part of the Greenland identity. The Greenland National Choir / Erinarsoqatigiissuit consists of approximately 100 singers from 22 choirs around the country. Here is the traditional song 'Kalaallit Nunaata Qanga Inuit'

My residential singing weekend in Derbyshire in October goes on sale TODAY, Thursday 22 January at 6pm. You can find details here: chrisrowbury.com/beach-boys Note that this weekend is NOT for beginners! You have until 5 February to apply. I'll let people know if they have a place by 12 February.

My residential singing weekend in Salisbury in September will go on sale TODAY, Thursday 22 January at 6pm. You can find details here: chrisrowbury.com/balkan-heart... You have until 5 February to apply. I'll let people know if they have a place by 12 February.

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My residential singing weekend in Grasmere, Lake District in July will go on sale TOMORROW, Thursday 22 January at 6pm. You can find details here: chrisrowbury.com/pacific-songs You have until 5 February to apply. I'll let people know if they have a place by 12 February.