Why Your Favourite Song Won’t Win Eurovision 2025 – Really, it...
So here we are again, happy as can be… then thirty-seven songs of variable quality come along and spoil our Spring. So we’ve given...
Twenty of ‘the best’ from Eurovision
Obviously, I'm a tone-deaf idiot with little appreciation of a tune, but this won't stop me compiling and sharing my TOP 20 of all-time...
The Eurovision Fan Bubble: Inclusive, Toxic, or Both?
It's less than a month until the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest kicks off in Basel, Switzerland. Across platforms, fans dissect every note, critique every costume,...
Eurovision’s Dark Side: Behind the glitter
For millions of viewers worldwide, the Eurovision Song Contest represents a dazzling celebration of music, performance, and cultural unity. Yet behind the brilliant costumes...
Queerbaiting at Eurovision: Are We Being Played?
As Eurovision 2025 approaches, the glitter-strewn path to Basel reveals an increasingly complex relationship between what the popular press insists on calling Europe's campest...
The Eurovision price of entry: how much nations pay for their...
This article was published in March 2025
From Germany's reported half-million-euro participation fee to Montenegro's modest contribution, the bill for Europe's glitziest musical showdown reveals...
Olly has second thoughts and says “non”
As you may have read by now, Olly, who won the Sanremo song festival, has decided not to take part in Eurovision after a...
So Joost didn’t break the law, just a camera
The Malmö police have closed the investigation into assault allegations against 2024 Dutch Eurovision entrant Joost Klein. A statement by the Malmö police said:
"The...
So this new EBU Statement – what does it *actually* mean?
Fans will tell you it means precisely nothing because nothing short of the hanging, drawing and quartering of the vanishing Martin Osterdahl would placate...
Reports of the death of Eurovision are greatly exageraged
Evening - or morning, or afternoon - make a day of it, I say. So how are we all?
For some of you, the answer...















