The Eurovision Song Contest is normally a homage to glitter, glamour and high camp. This year it was very much about the toxic politics of the Middle East.
A howling mob gathered outside the venue in Sweden , chanted anti-Semitic slogans and demanded Israel 's expulsion from the competition over the war in Gaza.
How shameful that these people stood with Hamas, rather than the Jews murdered, raped and kidnapped by the terror group at another music festival on October 7. Then something remarkable happened. In the public vote, Israel was the overwhelming choice. An extraordinary 323 points – including a maximum 12 from the UK – propelled Ms Golan in to fifth place.
Rapid advances in technology, mass migration and muscle-flexing by authoritarian states such as China will have a seismic impact on our democracy, economy and society, warns the PM. Rishi Sunak's assessment that the next few years will be 'some of the most dangerous' for Britain could not be more worrying
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