Sem Anne van Dijk analyses why the Eurovision Song Contest attracts so many neurodiverse fans - and explores why its fandom is the ideal space for them to shine.

On Saturday December 13th France’s Lou Deleuze won Junior Eurovision 2025 with the song ‘Ce monde’. ESC Insight’s Ben Robertson does a deep dive into the voting from the 23rd edition of Junior Eurovision to find the stories hidden within the statistics.

No countries from anywhere north of Poland are taking part in Junior Eurovision, despite this region being one of Eurovision's most popular areas. Ben Robertson watches their equivalents in Sweden and Denmark to work out what they do differently, and what Junior Eurovision should learn from them.

Phil Doré considers the options for those appalled by the recent EBU decisions regarding the Eurovision Song Contest: whether to boycott, not boycott, partially boycott, or explore alternatives.

As I type this, the EBU has decided that it’s perfectly fine for a country conducting an ongoing genocide to promote itself at a Song Contest supposedly based on values of peace. Fortunately, there’s an alternative song contest that has a clear moral purpose and unapologetically stands with the marginalised and colonised. To find such […]