Winter is coming, and the nights are still drawing in, but Eurovision is here to brighten your mood. Fin Ross Russell why he really appreciates our Song Contest during November.

The Eurovision Song Contest’s National Selection season is the biggest mixtape of musical discovery. Ewan Spence thinks about the importance of the Song Contest to break out of the pop-powered shackles of Spotify.

With armed conflict and terror threats rising across Europe, Ben Robertson explains why the Eurovision community is speculating on how the next Eurovision Song Contest could be the most geopolitically important in history.

There's more to Albania's Eurovision selection than giving us something to watch over the holidays. Phil Dore talks to author Nicholas Tochka on the roots of Albania's Festivali i Këngës.

Should the Big 5 rule exist? One Swedish journalist has questioned its existence in modern Eurovision, and it is easy to argue that the timing might never be better to get rid of the protectionist rule once and for all.