The composer of the British Eurovision song reckons the contest was rigged against them. Eurovision is on tonight and I'm not interested in watching, not even for the comedy value, so I haven't heard the song, but if it was as bad as his reasoning is incoherent, methinks Britain was not an undeserving loser.

The man who wrote the UK's Eurovision Song Contest entry has blamed Britain's "isolationist" stance over Iraq for his song coming last, failing to score a single point.

Isolationism... isn't that where a country chooses to sit out a conflict elsewhere and not get involved, you know, like what the US did in the two world wars (prior respectively to 1917 and 1941)? I imagine the British troops who fought in Iraq would be surprised to learn the UK stayed out of that conflict. I think he means the UK was punished for taking part rather than adopting the actually isolationist stance of most of the rest of Europe.

The song was written by Martin Isherwood, head of music at Sir Paul McCartney's fame school, the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.
Speaking to the BBC, he insisted the song was "great" and that the competition itself was "a complete and utter lottery" and "extremely political".

So it was a lottery, meaning the result was entirely open to chance, and it was political, meaning the result was an act of deliberate choice. Does not compute, Martin. Which of the two was it?