Mercury Prize 2025: How Britain’s Musical Superiority Complex Plays to an Empty Global Arena
Mercury Prize 2025: Britain’s Musical Self-Congratulations Go Global By our correspondent who has witnessed the slow-motion collapse of Western civilization but still appreciates a good bassline The Mercury Prize—the UK’s annual exercise in proving that Britannia still rules the waves, at least metaphorically—descended upon London’s Hammersmith Apollo last night with all the self-congratulatory pomp of…