Dr Alan Howard

The outcome of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest taking place in Moscow tonight, May 16th, will be (according to our computer model): 1. Norway 0.7 2. Greece 1.7 3. Turkey 4.5 4. Ukraine 5.8 5. Azerbaijan 6.4 6. Bosnia Herzegovina 7.0 7. United Kingdom 9.6 8. Iceland 16.2 9. Finland 17.3 10. Armenia 19.6 With the number indicating the country’s “odds” of actually winning the contest. Norway [...]

I was interviewed live on BBC Radio Berkshire this morning following an unexpected request to comment on the news that Graham Norton was replacing Terry Wogan as presenter of British television’s coverage of the Eurovision Song Contest. They were still determined to explore the myth that the British were hard done by in this year’s [...]