Eastern Bloc Voting!

The Eurovision Song Contest just gets more political every year as the Russians swept the board, despite fielding a pretty dire song.

See my write-up last year for our feeling on the block voting scandal that pretty much dominates the contest these days.

Of course, that didn't stop us having our own little Eurovision 'party' - Nick and Janice and Matt and Ali joined Rachel and I for an evening of beer, tea, nibbles, laughter, tears and general derision.

By our scores the Russian song came second to last, just beating the 'screaming angels' of Azerbaijan. Our top votes went to the camp disco stylings of Iceland, with the strong entry from Norway coming second and Britain's effort - surprisingly good - coming third.

In reality (if Eurovision voting has any bearing on reality) the UK came last... I guess because no one really likes us, or is intimidated by us, in Europe.

I'm not even sure why Britain even bothers entering these days - and it's certainly not worth 'resting' Doctor Who for a week for. Perhaps next year Eurovision will get relegated to BBC3 and Doctor Who can run its natural course.