Edited The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans (2025) and co-edited Off White: Central/Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race (2024). Eurovision research since longer than I can remember. She/her. .. more
Edited The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans (2025) and co-edited Off White: Central/Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race (2024). Eurovision research since longer than I can remember. She/her.
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The ruling requires Poland to change its system for recognising such marriages so as not to discriminate against same-sex couples.
Tag yourself, etc.
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Tho hard to imagine 🇶🇦 wouldn’t be up for massive mega-event without 🏳️🌈 stuff were that on offer
‘Imagine the passion of Arab Cup, glamour of Cairo Film Festival, and & cultural prestige of Expo Dubai, wrapped in the artistry, emotion, & spectacle of Eurovision’
Without that clarity, we are not sure if these necessary regulations sufficiently protect the integrity of the Song Contest’
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* the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers
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It also includes my contribution on the lessons the world has (not) learned after the Srebrenica genocide:
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There are far better experts on this, but I was an Australian diplomat in Ukraine in 2014 so I've seen this play out up close.
So join me, brothers and sisters, as we count down to a fullscale re-invasion.
Also quotes RTÉ spokesperson saying ‘clearly events in Middle East are changing day by day’.
Still unconvinced, or wriggle room?
❓What will EBU *do* if 3rd party launches major ad campaign for an entry
❓What does stronger enforcement of rules to prevent misuse of contest through lyrics/staging mean for artists’ creative freedom
❓Why allowing users to vote with multiple payment methods in first place is fair
‘Above all I hope it allows for the Contest to acknowledge the sometimes-difficult world in which we live but resist attempts to turn our stage into a place of geopolitical division’
Yes, but *how*?
🔹Max votes per payment method down to 10
🔹Broadcasters can’t support government ad campaigns
🔹Juries back in semi-finals, can incl. more professions, must have 2 18-25yos
🔹More cybersecurity
eurovision.tv/story/voting...
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Anne Irfan on the importance of writing Gaza's history.
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High exit rates among carers and early to mid-career workers: Professionals aged 35 and under are significantly more likely to leave & Those with caregiving responsibilities - often women - face disproportionate challenges of low pay, out-of-hours work and limited flexibility.
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@danhancox.bsky.social on Spain’s deep failures of memory and accountability re. the Franco regime.
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So here it is: my 10k word essay on the overlong and bafflingly insubstantial 2005 vampire historical thriller about Dracula, Kostova's THE HISTORIAN
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So here it is: my 10k word essay on the overlong and bafflingly insubstantial 2005 vampire historical thriller about Dracula, Kostova's THE HISTORIAN
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(‘The French.’ ‘The Americans.’ Not sure how edifying the answers would actually be…)
Some other options in there but not sure any engage *expansion* & its dialectic with the colonised like this does
