Simon Hoggart's week: if only this was the last Eurovision Song Contest

The spray-on kitsch is fairly hard to take, but even harder to take is that the organisers actually take it seriously✒It's the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday, the 57th. Wouldn't it be wonderful if it was the last? At least for us. BBC1 could put on reruns of Flog It!, or pro-celebrity badminton. The song contest would disappear on to one of those cable channels with audiences so small they can't be measured – Eurosport 3, perhaps.Because it is so utterly, horribly grim. Acts which woul...

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