BBC Announces Remember Monday Trio as the U.K.'s Eurovision 2025 Entry

March winds and April showers bring forth Eurovision's flowers, or at least so I'm told. The international songwriting contest has grown from its initial seven countries participating in 1956 to 37 countries (give or take a couple) in what has become a pageant of acceptance mixed with a dance party that culminates in the acts in question standing in as proxies for public sentiment towards their country. The European Broadcasting Union, which has been presenting the spectacle for nearly 70 years, insisted then, and continues to do so to this day, that their event is free of politics or policy, just focused on peace and love and being "United By Music." However, even though the full lineup still is short a few acts, one has only to take one look at the U.K.'s entry for this year and know that's a load of bollocks.

To be fair, one has only to watch one Grand Final to see right through the sad protests that viewers only vote for songs. After Russia's initial invasion of Ukraine in 2014, it barely made the Grand Final; two years later in 2016, Ukraine's war protest song (technically about Russia attacking them in 1914 and World War I) won in a landslide. The year after Brexit, the U.K. garnered null points, after decades of its supercilious attitude towards the continent kept it mired among last place.

And of course, after the current war in Ukraine started, Russia was kicked out. Excuse me, the country's political leaders made a decision to shut down the station associated with the EBU, left the union, and "therefore no longer qualified." That matters because 2024's contest turned into a referendum on the Israeli-Palestinian War when the former was not kicked out of Eurovision for starting a war. After all, "the EBU is not political and does not kick contestants out."