Some quick turnaround thoughts on this year’s Eurovision…
- Well done Norway, a great song which deserved to win;
- Well done Jade and Andrew Lloyd-Webber for a strong showing (5th place!);
- Well done BBC for taking the contest moderately seriously (well, as seriously as a ludicrous international music show can be taken) and making the effort to promote the song by putting Jade on various European TV shows over the last few months;
- Well done Graham Norton, who was much better than I expected and got the tone of the commentary about right, i.e. gentle mockery while avoiding some of the more excessive whinging that Wogan tended to indulge in;
- Well done EBU for changing the voting system to avoid the Eastern bloc dominance.
Well done everyone!