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Thursday, August 21, 2025
ONEUROPE: Eurovision Song Contest news

Oh yes, the songs …

What are we here for again? Oh yes a festival of popular songing and tunes. I wasn't here for the first few, but my local...

Morning – and Bosnia

Yes reports of COCKTAILS are very very true, which explains why it is - 10.50am local time and I am just getting up. I...

A mild rumbling in Bosnia

No the war hasn't started again, it's the Bosnian entry called Thunder and Lightning. Hmmm what do I say. I'd like to be able...

And so to Bosnia…..

There is a school of thought that they have now overdone it - by that I mean they are dressed in white suits, looking...

So much for the afternoon shift…

OK. Let's look back on today in Moscow, as that's really what we're all here for. Israel - almost entirely pleasant. A few worrying fluffs...

Bosnia worries me…

Phil: Now you'll know from previous years at this contest that I don't understand Balkan ballads and I particularly don't understand why they come...

It was the washing line and the brides what won it

The winner of the first semifinal of the Eurovision Song Contest 2008. By MILES. Seriously, they're going to absolutely ace this now. Visually it's...

Bosni—eeeer?

Nick: It's an interesting staging ... Laka's sister at the washing lines. Four brides with bouquets. And indications that Laka is planning on looking...

The morning’s deliberations

After passing on the delights from the hotel menu of "boiled kneepad" and "strip of meat" I'm back and not going to be put...

A morning of various joy – an evening of much of...

Aww Bosnia. It's flippin' brill! He starts off in a washing basket, with four knitting brides behind. Then everyone just runs about a bit in...