Following the British failure to score any points in the Eurovision song contest at the weekend, I am waiting for the British government to insist that the contest has to "reform". Plainly it has to modernise and become more flexible. European singing is not yet run properly: that is the explanation of British failure.

Richard Laming is Director of Federal Union, the British federalist campaigning organisation, and works in public affairs for commercial interests in London and Brussels. He writes here in a personal capacity

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