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"Muck in and play nice", "British exceptionalism." Like a lot of people, I’m afraid you have a naive sense of how nationalities operate in the real world. Most Brits have far more in common with most Germans than the Germans have with the French or Italians, for instance. And based on nearly 25...

It’s changed significantly over the years, and become 'political' in a quite different way. Yes, Greece and Cyprus would usually vote for each other. UK and Ireland, Scandinavia. The Eastern Europeans when they arrived. Aside — but was that being political or do the same ethnic/cultural types...

Israel were competing in the contest, and had supporters there, just like every other competing nation had their flag-waving fans in the arena.

Agreed. It’s always been rubbish musically but acceptable as slightly camp, good clean fun. Now it’s become an awkward mess of moany soft porn and moany political posturing.

Switzerland had to fall in line with EU banking norms a long time ago, in order to join the single market and Schengen.

Probably truer than you might think!

What’s your evidence that they are "hiding" billions of dollars for the Russians? They openly disclosed that they have 7 billion of Russian money frozen, in line with EU financial reporting requirements. I’m presuming that other Russian assets are also held in other countries too. What are these...

OK, fair enough. This wasn’t clear this morning when I read the Guardian report.

Well I suppose the "row" could still have been Israel-related. Not sure if that makes me a conspiracy theorist for mentioning the possibility. As for the voting, I’m thinking that the public vote for Israel could be high, and not because of Islamophobia as someone mentioned. If it was possible...

I saw the British entry last night. Holy shit, why do we (nearly) always get this so spectacularly wrong? I can’t stand the Europop stuff m'self but if you want to have a chance of winning you have to play the game. Not sure if I’ll watch. I’m dreading the inevitable politicking. I bet we’ll...