Catherine Baker
@richmondbridge.bsky.social
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.
‘Whatever some clown you sympathise with seems to say it is’, apparently…
November 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
‘Whatever some clown you sympathise with seems to say it is’, apparently…
Still worth questioning what made *this* last incident the decisive one bsky.app/profile/adam...
He’s said he’s staying in post for now and will be discussing a transition with the board so I assume he’ll still be around for any votes in December www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
BBC Director-General Tim Davie to step down
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Still worth questioning what made *this* last incident the decisive one bsky.app/profile/adam...
I have often been surprised how well a critical understanding of the social life of Yugoslav self-management bureaucracy equipped me for navigating HE…
November 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I have often been surprised how well a critical understanding of the social life of Yugoslav self-management bureaucracy equipped me for navigating HE…
I had Croatia in a model UN the actual UN had put on in London in April 2000 to celebrate the Millennium Development Goals.
Keynotes were an Irish peacekeeper, Zlata Filipović and Geri Halliwell. And I want to say Kofi Annan but would have to dig out souvenir programme to be sure.
Keynotes were an Irish peacekeeper, Zlata Filipović and Geri Halliwell. And I want to say Kofi Annan but would have to dig out souvenir programme to be sure.
November 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I had Croatia in a model UN the actual UN had put on in London in April 2000 to celebrate the Millennium Development Goals.
Keynotes were an Irish peacekeeper, Zlata Filipović and Geri Halliwell. And I want to say Kofi Annan but would have to dig out souvenir programme to be sure.
Keynotes were an Irish peacekeeper, Zlata Filipović and Geri Halliwell. And I want to say Kofi Annan but would have to dig out souvenir programme to be sure.
It can’t feel exactly the same as 1970s-80s because society has already now had the experience of such blatant racism being less permissible - so along w/the racism itself comes the knowledge that people are actively fighting back against that sense of progress many people found pride & safety in…
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
It can’t feel exactly the same as 1970s-80s because society has already now had the experience of such blatant racism being less permissible - so along w/the racism itself comes the knowledge that people are actively fighting back against that sense of progress many people found pride & safety in…
Oh well. There we are. Probably not a bad time to have optimistic news stories about new and returning broadcasters floating around. eurotrippodcast.com/2025/11/05/e...
Someone’s probably measuring up the dancing maple leaf outfits for the hello-here-we-are special guest interval act as we speak 🍁
Someone’s probably measuring up the dancing maple leaf outfits for the hello-here-we-are special guest interval act as we speak 🍁
Eurovision organisers discussing Canadian participation
Canadian national broadcaster CBC is in discussions with Eurovision organisers to participate in the competition, The Euro Trip can confirm.
eurotrippodcast.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Oh well. There we are. Probably not a bad time to have optimistic news stories about new and returning broadcasters floating around. eurotrippodcast.com/2025/11/05/e...
Someone’s probably measuring up the dancing maple leaf outfits for the hello-here-we-are special guest interval act as we speak 🍁
Someone’s probably measuring up the dancing maple leaf outfits for the hello-here-we-are special guest interval act as we speak 🍁