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Simon Hoggart's week: if only this was the last Eurovision Song Contest

Reported by guardian.co.uk on Friday, 25 May 2012 (on May 25, 2012)
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The spray-on kitsch is fairly hard to take, but even harder to take is that the organisers actually take it seriously

✒It's the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday, the 57th. Wouldn't it be..


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