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Andrew Brook

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British, gay, ginger, amateur musician Retired MD of restaurant food supplier , now making music for fun www.youtube.com/@andybrookmusic Politics: slightly left of centre, pro EU, pro PR music: lifelong fan of the Eurovision Song Contest. Don’t laugh.

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Grim reading.

10.03.2026 16:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

What do you suspect is causing this?

10.03.2026 13:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

National car parks?

10.03.2026 13:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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a woman in a yellow dress is dancing in a closet and says how dare you ! Alt: a woman in a yellow dress is dancing in a closet and says how dare you !
10.03.2026 13:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Lewis applied to stand for leader in 2020, but failed to get enough nominations, so that deals with that.

Then there are the 10 pledges that Starmer stood on, and how many of those still stand? Four?

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10.03.2026 10:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nor did I. Mainly because of Israel’s participation but also because it was a very poor year for songs. I had no interest in any song winning at all, I literally couldn’t care, as long as Israel didn’t win. I’ve been watching every year since 1969 and I really didn’t enjoy last year.

10.03.2026 10:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Don’t worry - I have been confused between Austria and Switzerland over the past couple of years, too.

10.03.2026 10:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Swiss singer came almost last. Are you thinking of the Austrian singer?

09.03.2026 21:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you.

09.03.2026 21:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The government would not be aligning if they did not intend to conclude an SPS deal with the EU. These regs are to prepare producers, but there is still the question of what derogations and exceptions the UK is trying to get from the EU, which the EU is reluctant to give. That is only alluded to.

09.03.2026 17:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There is little chance of it leading to lower food prices. However, it may lead to increased profits for whoever has the most economic clout in the chain, be it producer, wholesaler or retailer. And in any case these regulations affect exports since imports already comply.

09.03.2026 17:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

About bloody time!

09.03.2026 17:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It was never going to be in Geneva. They might have made a bid to host the contest but it was awarded to Vienna in the first place, and will be held in the same arena as in 2015.

09.03.2026 17:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Who was the 16th president ago and what was wrong with him that he was worse than Trump?

09.03.2026 17:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Are there speed limits in America, or upper age limits to stop old people from driving? Or is it a free-for-all? (I genuinely have no idea).

09.03.2026 17:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Some magician he turned out to be, then.

09.03.2026 17:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Why are they not painted yellow and blue, to make it obvious who provided them?

09.03.2026 17:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And that’s why the headline generator, whilst superficially amusing, was a mistake.

Is this a genuine headline or not, and how can we tell?

09.03.2026 17:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Yes, Labour is too authoritarian. That has always been my biggest reservation about the party and why I am really a LibDem but Labour because of where I live.

09.03.2026 10:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’m not sure how you could work out whether the pilot had been a success or not. Certainly not in a short period of time, but a sunset clause would bring back the status quo and a review could take place then.

09.03.2026 10:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Will they then brand themselves as the Shadow Shadow Cabinet ?

09.03.2026 07:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is logical, but you worry about it being a trans person (a man dressed as a man, as you see it) rather than a man dressed as a man, even though the chances of you being attacked by the later are infinitely greater than the former. That, is illogical and based on unwarranted fear… or prejudice.

09.03.2026 07:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

She was, with her Waves, too. Love Shine A Light won by a landslide and went to number 3 in the charts and saved them from being a one hit wonder in the UK.

09.03.2026 07:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Norway, not Iceland. Sorry, I didn’t make that clear.

Iceland has taken one look at Greenland and given a huge collective gulp. The referendum will pass with a large majority.

I wonder if Greenlanders regret leaving the EEC now.

09.03.2026 07:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Your commute should *cost* the same. Why should a banker living 1 mile from the office only pay £2 to get to work whilst the cleaner, who can only afford to live 20 miles from their place of work, has to pay £10 to get to work?

09.03.2026 06:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If Norway follows Iceland you can be absolutely certain that they will be picking cherries. Particularly fishy ones.

08.03.2026 22:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This is one of those songs that everyone thinks was a Eurovision song, but wasn’t. It is quite similar to Walking on Sunshine, too, and that one wasn’t, either.

08.03.2026 22:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Let him say this and hope that Farage says the same. It will be a wedge issue for Reform voters and when the war proves to have been a disaster for Trump the credibility of Farage and Tice amongst their supporters will suffer badly.

08.03.2026 22:11 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I don’t doubt that you are genuine in your concern. But the parents who support trans children are equally compassionate and it is their choice. As a child I knew people who had the same views about gay children as you do about trans. Some cared, others bigots. Both caused much anguish and harm.

08.03.2026 21:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Indeed… if there is a GP, nursing and care shortage then it is only going to be addressed by immigrants, in the short term at least.

08.03.2026 21:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0