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I’m not suggesting that it’s all peace, love and fraternity inside Europe, but we do appear to have an especially developed sense of our own importance. I agree we should leave it here. Eurovision is fun, and there are plenty of other threads to discuss weightier political matters on. For...

Both. The audience vote tells you who liked which song, the politics is in the country by country vote, and always has been. That hasn’t changed at all, the political alliances do from time to time, but that’s always been the way. Here’s an article that you can read if you choose...

Are we still talking about the political side of it? It’s exactly as it always was. And it’s precisely because I wasn’t born yesterday that I can remember the politics of decades ago. The power blocs and who gives their votes to who may have altered over the years as political alliances have...

None taken, but the same sentiment returned with interest. When was Eurovision not political?

It’s never been any different, why complain about it now? I personally feel that Britain’s entry for this year lacked the essential humour that goes along with camp, and inadvertently turned into something quite grubby. We’re an odd bunch us in the UK and Ireland, we seem incapable of just...

Obrigado Frutos.

Yes please!