Navigating geopolitics in Eurovision 2024
For OnEurope (and many of the small but select group who hang out around these parts), The Eurovision Song Contest is celebrated both for...
It could have been so different …
I'm writing this piece perched on a table in the Rock Lounge of the Saku Suurhalle ... you remember that - it was the...
Dispelling the myth: No one votes for the UK?
So after all the usual bleating and hollering from the more reactionary corners of the country about how nobody likes us / it's all...
In search of something green
Each year, professional juries watch dress rehearsals of three Eurovision shows, casting their votes to be combined with those of televoters during the nail-biting...
Don’t throw your colleagues under a bus!
So do you want some thoughts about the whole BBC News "ranking" thing from someone sensible? - Of course you do - that's why...
Ireland and the Eurovision backstop
In the latest of our occasional Eurovision history series, Phil ponders the 'Irish Question' - or how Ireland lost the knack of Eurovision. Forget...
World-o-Vision? That vision seems distorted!
It seems that the world of the Eurovision internet has gone mad over some wording changes on the eurovision.tv website. Major internet players like...
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,...
We need to talk about Eurovision staging fatigue
As the smoke machines hiss into action in Basel's St. Jakobshalle Arena, it's hard not to marvel at what the Eurovision Song Contest has...
Why Your Favourite Song Wouldn’t Have Won Eurovision (had it actually...
Finally it happened. Finally that thing that I’ve been warning you about for all these years has actually come true, and nobody actually IS...