So Canada is to join Eurovision, that gaudy circus of glitter and diplomatic fudge. The UK, ever the gracious host, has welcomed this ‘cultural expansion’. But let us pause in our ecstasy and ask: is this a triumph of soft power or the death rattle of British relevance?
Eurovision, a contest that once celebrated European unity, is now a landfill for banal pop and political gestures. Canada’s inclusion is a transparent bid for Commonwealth nostalgia, a desperate grasp at transatlantic ties while the empire moulders in history books. The Victorians built bridges and railways.
We give them song contests. Marvellous.
