Closer still to the "Gay World Cup" - otherwise known as the Eurovision Song Contest - and we learn that some of our favourites this year including Netherlands and Switzerland have failed to qualify, and that a raft of cruddy over-wrought ballads got through.
Bleurgh! Maybe it is time to remind ourselves that this is not X-Factor nor any of those other shitty "battle of the balladeer" type programmes that Simon Cowell has foisted onto our telly screens, and that above all Eurovision should be fun!
