Continuing Jon Jacob’s reflection on his relationship with this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, the man behind @ThoroughlyGood waves off the United Kingdom delegation from the Austrian Embassy, and wonders once more about what the Song Contest means.

As we are now allowed into that fantastic Eurovision arena it’s time for another ESC Insight newsletter. Giving you the best bits of the Eurovision news and, today, the interesting quirks seeing our Eurovision stage up close and personal, it’s yours to view via this link.

A day filled with fan favourites, unexpected highlights and a lot of impromptu sing-alongs.

Is it better to select a Eurovision song through a National Final or with an Internal Selection. Ben Robertson number crunches to find out if there is an answer.

Rehearsals from the second half of the Semi-Finals are up for discussion today on the podcast, with Ben Robertson and Benny Royston joining Ewan on the daily podcast from the Eurovision Press Centre.

Thanks to YouTube, Terry Vision can’t bring you the Czech Republic, but never fear, he’ll look to make it up to you with some thoughts on Romania, Russia, Belarus, and the truth behind Norway in his latest Eye On Eurovision!