TV: The lurid, loud contest that turns me into a Europhobe
Eurovision is a gallimaufry of ever-more lurid digital special effects, crazy acts and songs that range from incoherent chicken-clucking to faux heavy-metal to winsome little ballads that seem lost in a mad world of national flag-waving and constipated patter
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Eurovision Song Contest RTÉ Two, BBC Four
Nature Live RTÉ One
Genderquake Channel 4
The Great House Revival RTÉ One
In writing about Eurovision, it’s difficult not to seem at times like a Europhobic Brit, backed into the red, white and blue corner together with the hyphenated, high-falutin’ likes of Jacob Rees-Mogg and much of England’s underclass, who are likely to slip further down the disadvantaged slope after a full-blown ...