Those who care surely watched it, put the Ukraine were the overall winners at the annual song / costume / ridiculous dance routine / political voting fest that is the Eurovision Song Contest. 24 countries performed at the event in Istanbul on Saturday night - and 36 countries tuned in and voted. The winning act was Ruslana who put on a Xena the Warrior Princess style performance (cultural references courtesy of Terry Wogan there) of her track 'Wild Dance'.
With an abundance of Eastern European countries now competing - and all voting for each other - countries like Britain and Ireland, who used to always come top five, are now relegated some way down the rankings. British entry James Fox came in sixteenth - perhaps next year we could put in Paul McCartney who surely has a big enough fan base in the lesser known reaches of Europe to secure us a win.