United Kingdom? Remember them? Full of stuff and impresarios? And they used to win the contest?
Well, maybe not always win, but be the bridesmaids to the winner. Many many times, most probably before you, dear reader, were born.
They keep trying, and know they can, one day, win the thing again. After all, they’d take you somewhere glamorous like Manchester. What more could you want with its canals and football teams?
Anyway, a mere five years ago, they sent a ‘boy’ band to the show in Düsseldorf. High hopes abounded. And then it all went wrong. Well, wrong by the standards of the decades to the 1990s, but a triumph for the time since then. This little song came eleventh.