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14 May 2011updated 17 Jan 2012 6:01am

The politics of Eurovision

My pick for the winner – and why Britain will get nuls points.

By Steven Baxter

Eurovision is Europe in miniature – at the same time both maddeningly wonderful and brilliantly depressing, a Babel tower of colliding cultures and simmering rivalries.

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