A Vision of Europe

Watched the Eurovision contest today. I couldn't tell the difference between the UK song and the one that won, but apparently most people around europe could. It occurs to me that the only way we can win now is if the UK becomes "un-united" and every region of the country enters their own song. Yorkshire could sing "On Ilkley Moor By Tat" and so on (I once heard that played on a train hooter by a particulary inventive driver as we came into Leeds station). The we all vote like mad for each other's entries...

Having said that, as a spectacle the event was huge success, the staging and the performances were wonderful. My favourite was the one with the angle grinders. Some director must have watched "Scrapheap Challenge", seen the show of sparks that you get when you cut through cast iron, and decided that they really should fit that into a song. Great stuff.