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Politics has robbed Eurovision of its silliness

✍️ Alexander Larman

Politics has robbed Eurovision of its silliness Eurovision’s most committed supporters are no longer the kind of people who you would want to sing from the same songbook as.

England is playing Slovenia this evening but, far from being a spectacle of working class culture, football has become a game for Anywheres.

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