The weekend of the Unite The Kingdom celebration . Will the BBC Ignore it ? Declare it a meet up of extremists – like Starmer has ? Calling all attending the ‘far right’ ? Or seek out disorder – not that caused by the British state of course .The British Prime minister has already condemned this in a public statement . For those not able to attend please view it online to show support – as well as monitoring the approach the State media take to it .🇬🇧
Weekend 16th May 2026 Unite The Kingdom
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The position of Wes Streeting and Andy Burnham on rejoining the European Union dominate Sunday’s papers. Both Streeting and Burnham, who are both expected to try to replace Sir Keir Starmer as leader, would seek to rejoin the EU if they were to become prime minister, the Sunday Telegraph reports. – salivates the BBC in their online news summary of today’s press.
But do the Europeans want us back? Could they ever forgive us?
‘Look Mum, one point’: Why does the UK keep getting Eurovision wrong? Another year, another flop. The UK has self-destructed at Eurovision all over again. Look Mum No Computer, aka musician Sam Battle, got one solitary point, ending up in last place… Even Sam was aware it was a risk. “What we’re doing is Marmite,” he told BBC News before the contest. “You either love it or hate it (BBC) – apparently Britain is that other extraordinary type of Marmite – the one continentals either hate, or they loath.
Of course this international distain cuts the BBC to the quick. It’s like they went to their North London dinner party but the other guests had heard they once mentioned perhaps Britain should control her own borders, just a bit. Oh the humanity!
And so we get the now familiar annual Eurovision post-mortems – telling us on the one hand the corporation may pick losers but the public didn’t do any better when they had the choice and how established artists won’t touch it with a barge pole for fear of nul points wrecking their career.
And don’t try to tell us it’s not all about politics…
Israel’s Noam Bettan was booed during a brief period where his song topped the leaderboard – showing the strength of feeling over the country’s participation (BBC)
And since (post ABBA) it’s all been of such pointless mind-bending inconsequence our BBC feels obliged to explain the winner…
Bangaranga! Bulgaria wins Eurovision – but UK comes last… with one solitary point from the Ukrainian jury. (Mark Savage, Music correspondent, Reporting from Eurovision Song Contest, Vienna, BBC) – I suppose that’s a solitary quid pro quo for all those millions spent on their war in the Donbas. So what did Boom-Bang-a-Bang mean back in 1969? (There’s one for the teenagers)
In case you were wondering…
To the uninitiated, Bangaranga seems cast in the mould of nonsensical Eurovision songs like Diggi-Loo, Diggi-Ley – but the title actually means “uproar” in Jamaican patois. (BBC) – how very… Balkan?
Dara’s performance: A cross between an AA meeting and an exorcism… The lyrics address Dara’s commitment to overcoming anxiety and ADHD, which she was diagnosed with last year. Her performance came with whiplash-inducing choreography, based on the ancient Bulgarian tradition of Kukeri, in which masked performers chase away evil spirits. (BBC)
OK, I’ve sussed how GB can win this thing next time around.
Either Bodybags Burnham or the lad Streeting as Labour PM takes us back into the EU – we’ll have to ditch the Pound for the Euro (them’s the rules) and hand over North Sea oil to buy our way back in this time (we gave up our fish stocks last time we joined – but anyway Miliband doesn’t want us to drill our own oil) – that should ease the anti-British sentiment sur le Continent.
Now, the actual performance – the song has to be titled Goodness Gracious Me – a hat tip to Bollywood and Bhangra Beat combined with zombi-like BDSM-styled dancers doing a version of a traditional English folk Morris dance/Wicker Man mash-up – inspired by our singer recently having been diagnosed with… ooooh, let’s think: Living with PMDD is like having the Grim Reaper visit every month… premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) (BBC)
And if that little lot doesn’t add up to douze points…
As regular readers will know by now, Mr AsI relishes those close juxtapostions of clashing headlines that tend to put the lie to prevailing media narratives.
How rival protesters were kept apart by £4.5m police operation… between a rally organised by far-right figure Tommy Robinson, and a pro-Palestinian demonstration. – Daniel Sandford, BBC UK correspondent having a moan about the cost to the taxpayer (extraordinarily)
Somewhere out of sight were the Met’s new SandCat armoured vehicles, which officers said were only there for circumstance where officers were confronted by “extreme violence”. In truth, there was less edge to Saturday’s protest. (BBC) – somewhat grudgingly, I think you’ll agree.
Meanwhile, or should I say whereas: Riot police deal with ‘serious disorder’ as Celtic fans celebrate Premiership title win… Police Scotland said they faced “significant levels of disorder” during which officers were injured. “The levels of criminal behaviour witnessed, in particular the hostility directed towards our officers, is simply unacceptable and cannot be tolerated.” (BBC)