Mick Hartley

Well this is depressing, if not unexpected. A Guardian letter from the usual suspects – Ken Loach, Mike Leigh, Roger Waters, etc. "fifty figures from the creative industries" – demands that the BBC not screen Eurovision 2019 from Israel. Not because Eurovision is appalling rubbish and an insult to popular music, but because of, you know, apartheid, systematic violation of Palestinian human rights….

Fortunately Adam Levick has already done the necessary work of taking it apart.