Eurovision 2026 Review: Finland

Finland heads to Vienna with Linda Lampenius and Pete Parkkonen’s ‘Liekinheitin’. It won the increasingly brilliant UMK in Tampere with the sort of crushing...

16 March – There’s no need to be carrying a frown

The Eurovision fortnight can be a long two weeks if they don't quite go your way. You turn up in the host city a...

14 Mar – Do you remember that sweetest night

For your viewing pleasure in these exceptional times, we're going back to a simpler age. A time of cosy contests all over in one...

Here’s tonight’s classifed results check with Mr Phil

Even *I* can't do eight articles all by myself so, instead of that, I've decided to do one massive page updated as as when...

20 February – I hear you screaming

Do you often wonder why some countries haven't won the top prize in our favourite TV show more often? Those countries with, perhaps, only...

28 January – We were restless, confused

Remember 2020? Yep, that crazy time when the world ground to a halt, no-one could go out, and our favourite TV show was cancelled....

And Finland tops off a day of news

After a huge day of news with all sorts of people saying all sorts of things, Finland (where they speak in thousand letter words),...

19 December – You are history to me

There have been many occasions when a Eurovision act has been a family affair. Maybe some people only trust parents/partners/siblings/children to help them out,...

4 December – Oh oh, oh oh oh, ding dong

It's another contender for Mr/Mrs/Ms/Mx Eurovision today. You know the sort - one of those who crops up at every Eurovision-related opportunity to open...

14 November – I will never say the end

The free language rule. It's part and parcel of the typical Eurovision experience. But in the 1980s it was a different story. Countries could...