A belligerent Eurovision night fit for a broken Europe

Eurovision has long been continental politics fought with ballads instead of bombs and 2012 was the most politicised contest yetIn the Eurovision Song Contest, the perfect score is 12 points. Unfortunately, it's necessary to get these top marks from most countries in most rounds — as the 2012 winner, Loreen from Sweden, achieved on Saturday night — rather than accumulating the dozen votes from 41 countries across the whole evening, as happened to the UK's Englebert Humperdinck in the Azerbai...

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