And then again there were more than a few politically charged songs at Raunds on Saturday. Sure, some of them related to the injustices of a century or so back, but nonetheless...

Thanks for the link, McGrath: we played quite a few of my families requests - they'd watched the show - and one or two were okay. Ish. None to match that spine-tinglingly marvellous song from Bosnia Herzogovinia a couple of years back. That was suitably rootsey, but I'm afraid their entry this year seemed to have gone for the EuroVisionFormulaCumParody angle.