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Thursday, October 2, 2025
ONEUROPE: Eurovision Song Contest news

Well, it’s always 5 o’clock somewhere…

Good morning, dear reader. I correspond to you from the inside of Heathrow's Terminal 5 where I am waiting upon the tardy Rosé and...

Ireland & Belarus

Ireland is not quite as bad as I believe it was in the first rehearsal. They have a great stage projection, Celtic knots and...

Israel….. I’m alarmed..

To my tired old eyes, this has got no better. Mei still seems to be shouting at me quite a lot and, from me...

Hungry for Hungary

I've been waiting all day, if not all my life, for András Kállay-Saunders. I've had my eye on him for some time now in...

Belgium … Mr Creosote and his wafer-thin song

Sadly, however, the Go Compare man, who looks frightfully bad on his twitter photo, has just polished his XXL man-size turd of a song...

Azerbaijan, striking a match

Azerbaijan is up now. I didn't rate this in first hearing but had to quickly reassess as I realised just how good the song...

I’ve been spending too much time with Monty!

The exact same ten in our predictions! Blimey! Malta Israel Norway Poland Austria Greece Finland Romania Macedonia Switzerland First six I'd say are safe and the last four are by no means certain and perhaps...

So that’s your final…

A very brief but effective floaty flag ceremony to open with psychedelic backdrop to introduce the final. The artists are announced onto stage in...

Belgium, because I’m probably contractually obliged…

I hate this with a passion. I despise cod classical music and this is the worst example of its kind. There's little changed from...

San Marino – More cheese please

Imagine if you will a quatro formaggio pizza, then add lots more cheese - and by lots, I mean "shitloads" - and this is...