A nation that shaped modern popular music finds itself unable to win its own continent's most-watched song contest — and Parliament has decided this paradox deserves a formal reckoning. The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee will examine how the BBC selects Britain's Eurovision entries, after a fifteen-year pattern of poor results culminated in a single point at May's contest. The inquiry asks a question that is as much cultural as procedural: why does a country of such musical abundance keep arriving empty-handed at Europe's great communal stage?