Beware of people who tell you that art and politics should never mix: they have zero values and questionable morals and believe that a pretty picture or catchy tune can be judged in isolation, even though this same picture, and that song, may be instruments for sanitizing reality and funding genocide. Fascism and genocide have … Continue reading When Art Fails
As Iceland becomes the 5th country to withdraw from the 70th Eurovision Song Contest, the annual music festival which is Europe’s biggest cultural event and one of the world’s most watched, news coverage fails to scratch below the surface on what this means beyond Eurovision, beyond TV, beyond even politics. What is happening to Europe’s biggest cultural … Continue reading The Dark Lesson of Eurovision 2026 No One Talks About
George Tsakraklides 