Hugo Rifkind Hugo Rifkind

Once you’ve seen Eurovision, London 2012 looks like a noble last stand

issue 02 June 2012

Jetlagged in the small-hour darkness of Santa Monica last week, and perusing various write-ups of the previous evening’s Eurovision Song Contest in Azerbaijan, I had a sudden epiphany as to why America holds all these sporting contests with ‘world’ in the title which don’t involve anybody else. It’s because everybody else is dreadful.

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