Festive wishes from the 4BR team

Wherever you are across the banding globe — we hope it will be a happy festive period and a musical New Year.

We hope you all have a happy festive period

Thursday, 25 December 2025

Oh! May that period soon arrive,
When kings will cease to be,
And freedom and equality
Extend from sea to sea.
Then mitres, thrones, misrule and wrong,
Will from this earth be hurled,
And peace, goodwill and brotherhood,
Shall reign throughout the world.

John Arnott
Chartist Poet, 1846

Thanks as always for your support. Have a happy festive season and a musical New Year to everyone from Iwan Fox and Anthony Banwell.

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