Scott Reid (same username elsewhere)
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Goes on about misinformation, Eurovision and Scottish stuff. Views are my own. Assistant editor at Logically Facts, formerly Twitter and Apple.
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For those of you who may be trying out new places, I’m the same username in most of them (Instagram, TikTok, Threads, Bluesky).
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Imagining the person in charge of Co-op Live thinking “that God that place is sorted now”, getting a glass of wine and switching the telly on to
BREAKING: Nicki Minaj has been arrested at an airport in the Netherlands hours before she was due to perform at Co-op Live in Manchester.
Full story:
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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The David Davis question was the PMQs equivalent of a reward for people who sit through the credits of a Marvel film.
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OH MY GOD, Glasgow techno bin man has had an upgrade.
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Ireland, I’m sorry, I feel you need a sharp Eurovision intervention here.
All this talk of politics, and “they never give Ireland a chance”, and “we should just pull out”, and “it’s not a singing contest any more”.
I’ve heard all that chat before, you’re sounding very British.
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So basically, everyone agrees that the best place for the UK to host Eurovision is 10 minutes away from their house.
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Would be quite funny if someone at Channel 4 had just scheduled a Dispatches repeat to fill a gap on Saturday night, took a swig of their coffee and looked online.
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I think the best comparison I have between last year and this year for the UK is that Sam Ryder felt he was singing down the lens to you. Due to the camera angles, it felt like you were in Row Z at a gig for Mae Muller’s performance.
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Happy birthday to this legendary front page.
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I’m not saying life was simpler at the start of 2016 but
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Your occasional reminder that Katarina Johnson-Thompson has the best Twitter bio.
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Just checking in on how Rylan’s doing after Eurovision and of course this is the first track
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The Sunday Herald previews Donald Trump's inauguration.
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The greatest trick Sam Ryder pulled off was to be a relentlessly positive and optimistic person who the British somehow liked. That’s not easy.
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It was probably at this point that I realised Italy definitely didn’t have the staging nailed down for their song.
#Eurovision
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A side effect of social distancing: it looks like everyone on daytime TV has had a massive row with each other.
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Every so often I remember how your man from Finland nearly got wiped out by a wire at Eurovision. 😬
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I’m beginning to think D:Ream may have been wrong.
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The recurring problem is the UK doesn’t understand that the worst song doesn’t finish bottom, it’s the one no-one notices...
#Eurovision
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Sweden and Finland draw the first half and, internally, a BBC Eurovision producer starts screaming.
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Somewhere in the UK, a BBC health and safety person involuntarily shuddered, but doesn’t know why. Yet.
#Eurovision
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Mark Carney's CV is gonna be incredible. "Basically ran the country in the absence of anyone else doing anything after the referendum".
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All news is local, all politics is local.
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It’s an aaaaaaace maaaaaaaan.
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There is a man on That’s TV in Scotland being interviewed and his screensaver keeps flipping to increasingly surreal still images.
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Of all the trains I could be on today.
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The reaction to the UK's result at Eurovision - certainly, what I've seen - appears to be a bit more grown-up. Accepting that we really didn't match the likes of Sweden and Finland and enjoying the show really, which is nice. The politics argument evaporated after we came second.
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Can you truly consider Wimbledon losers when they have a crowd-surfing womble?
#bbcfacup
#liverpool
http://t.co/ANMHIgHPwJ
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Olly Murs on The One Show to find out which of his gigs is getting postponed for Eurovision, fair play.
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There are many different levels of evil, and then there’s the person who put this fake plug socket sticker on the wall at Glasgow Airport.
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You couldn't post me out an application form by any chance?
@JournalistsLike
http://t.co/KjUcvfbau6
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Not saying Eurovision has broken me, but I keep getting horror flashbacks to a troublesome part of the stage.
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There really are limitations to automation.
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This vote reveal is so much better. It’s like battleships, you could be taken out at any second without warning.
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Finished by 10.10? Bless that optimistic scheduler.
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"Hello, this is the UK. We're a bit busy at the moment, please leave a message."
#gbbofinal
#gbbo
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And surely to God, that’s the last thing you want.
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If one of the pictures from all the Liverpool Eurovision coverage looks familiar, it’s because it’s where this historic moment happened.
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In Bristol, a woman called Brenda sighs, takes her phone off the hook and barricades the door.
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Actually a very grown-up analysis of what may have gone wrong for the UK. The one thing I’d add is trying to host the whole show and still sort out your own song can be somewhat disruptive, which may be why host entries struggle.
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Another initial thought: Liverpool has thrown itself at Eurovision in a way I don’t believe believe any of the other bidders would have. It’s not an ironic thing, or a “we’ll put on a good event for you” thing, it’s a “we want this and we’ll prove ourselves” thing.
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Eurovision: it ain’t anti-British bias. We send the wrong song with the wrong staging and no interest from the UK public every single year. If we were as bad at the Olympics as this there would be demands for an inquiry, we wouldn’t be going “those boxing judges hate the Brits”.
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This is a bit of a Sliding Doors moment for Ireland at Eurovision.
There's a new kid on the block! Meet Sergio Jaén, the 22-year-old Spanish staging wizard behind
@BambieThug
's bewitching
#Eurovision2024
performance. 🇮🇪 🇪🇸
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This time last week, as you were listening to Graham Norton quietly talking up the UK’s chances of success at Eurovision and trying to reassure you that, yes, this time it was going to be ok, this was Italy’s very excited introduction.
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The Australian commentator described the stage invader live on-air as "some absolute cockhead", confirming why Australia should be here. And possibly be all our overlords.
#eurovision
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This would be a very good year for the UK to suddenly put forward an amazing Eurovision entry…
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The massive Yes sign on my way into Glasgow city centre has changed.
#indyref
http://t.co/EUQNjEYOq3
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Glasgow Central: we’re going to line up all platforms from left to right, that seems sensible.
Edinburgh Waverley: f*** it, let’s just do them at random.
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Beginning to wonder how bad a Conservative disaster would have to get for Labour not to find some way of distracting everyone from it.
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There’s a clip of Bambie Thug from the Late Late doing the rounds and yes, that national final still needs some work. But this told me that Ireland hopefully now gets it (and frankly this advice would be good for some other countries too).
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"I'm sorry, the old Bake Off can't come to the phone right now. Why? Because it's dead."
#GBBO
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Unfortunately, the UK had a tricky song to convert to a live performance, the staging was a bit too distant and it was a little busy organising a contest. But it picked a radio-friendly song and needs not to panic.
#Eurovision
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A special shout out to Sam Ryder for remaining endlessly enthusiastic about being at Eurovision despite the best efforts of some of the people interviewing him.
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Happy July the 4th, which is of course a hugely important day in history.
It brought us this headline.
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Coming soon to ITV, a new thriller...
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We all know there's only one man who can settle this if it goes to deadlock.
#bbcreferendum
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There was a sign beside this guy saying “please leave donations so I can develop the act”. Fair play, he has DELIVERED.
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@eimid_
He’s notorious among Eurovision fans but I refuse to believe the average person in Azerbaijan is going “we can’t vote for Ireland because of that Turkey.” The songs just don’t stand out enough, as you say.
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For anyone who gives Scott Mills a hard time over Eurovision, he’s just done the five minute speech a lot of us would have given had we been handed a microphone.
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Nothing quite says “it’s January and we’re all skint” than the UK coming together to watch a hedgehog sing Don’t Look Back In Anger.
#MaskedSinger
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Anyway, Europe doesn’t hate us, we dispelled that myth last year. A good, highly produced radio record didn’t translate to the live stage. Like Gina G but in a far more competitive era. Keep calm and carry on and all that.
#Eurovision
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The anorak in me enjoys this little handover to the nations and regions at the end of the new look 10pm news on BBC One.
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1. It’s not Scott Mills’ fault that Steve Wright is leaving.
2. If your objection is that “Radio 2 is just bringing in people from Radio 1”, where do you think Steve Wright was before?
3. A DJ leaving makes us feel older and like we’re losing a friend, I get it.
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Two initial thoughts:
- The BBC did an incredible job with a tonally difficult Eurovision. When it’s at full pelt it’s an incredible broadcaster.
- Oh Ireland.
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This isn’t good enough. They should have their own, self-titled show.
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If this goes to Eurovision I’m just imagining the number of health and safety forms the BBC will be filling out ahead of the show.
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Tweet of the week/year.
The last 2 days of English politics have been the most tragic display of ineptitude I've ever seen in my life, and I am Italian.
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Post-Sam Ryder, with the lack of “it’s all political” moaning about how the UK’s done since and having seen what Ireland got from Eurosong … do we think the UK’s perhaps ready for a national selection show again?
*runs away*
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Imagine being a tourist, looking at this map and questioning whether the word “north” means what you thought it did.
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A lesson: Never write anything in a story, even for a millisecond as a joke, that you don't want to go in the paper.
http://t.co/SOdZMAboap
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I will never understand why the rest of the world doesn't have the 2nd of January as a holiday. Scotland has this right.
#backtowork
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Expected
#indyref
declaration times for every council area. Good find by
@gerrybraiden
.
http://t.co/ryzCtDbRCQ
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I bring you the incredible news that there is a celebrity called Bishop Briggs.
Bishop Briggs praises Lady Gaga’s "emotional" performance in ‘A Star Is Born’
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If Space Man had been put together at a writing camp and given to some random artist it would have finished near the bottom. It only worked because it was Sam’s vision from start to finish and he was invested in it.
This last point is the crucial one.
No more writing songs *specifically* for Eurovision, ever, please, because they inevitably feel flat and artificial. Space Man was already Sam's song and it showed - even when it was technically the same genre!
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AP categorically stating a claim by the President is false. AP. That bastion of controversy.
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Here's that account of a meeting between May and Juncker that's on your timeline in easier-to-read Moments format.
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If you’d said to me in the midst of the UK getting zero points and everyone blaming politics that the Ten would come from a Liverpool-hosted Eurovision I would have laughed in your face.
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Pac-Man's fall from grace was swift and merciless.
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The camera just doesn’t settle on her and you don’t get to know her. I know she’s on the video screen but if I’m in Azerbaijan I have no idea who this person is, I need them introduced to me.
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Rita Ora just casually being included in one of the Eurovision semi-finals immediately makes me wonder if the BBC have someone big lined up for the final…
NEW 🚨 RITA ORA will be performing a mega-medley of her hits during the
#Eurovision
Semi Final!
Other artists performing during the Semi Finals include X Factor runner up Rebecca Fergsuon, plus from Ukraine: The Hardkis, Alyosha, Mariya Yaremchuk, OTOY & Zlata Dzyunka.
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Just your Rosa Linn, who finished 20th in Eurovision but whose song has gone massively viral since, on the BBC Breakfast couch. You don’t need to win Eurovision to win, you can get a song out there that’s a slow burner but eventually catches fire.
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I fear the biggest problem with the UK’s Eurovision entry this year has been expectation management. Loads of excitement and no info led to everyone getting excited and filling in the gaps. That isn’t normally a problem but the anticipation because of last year changed it.
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“Do they know it’s Brexit time at all?”
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I enjoy that Amanda Holden is so notorious with Eurovision fans after her brief appearance giving the points that these two tweets appeared in my timeline almost simultaneously.
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Expectation management on Eurovision tickets:
- The arena is quite small and a ton of seats will probably be lost because of the need to get TV cameras etc in.
- Half the world is going to try to get these tickets.
I’m not saying you won’t get them, just … bear that in mind.
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Strong Taggart reboot vibes from this photo
First Minister
@NicolaSturgeon
has officially launched the Scottish National Investment Bank.
It'll help to tackle some of the biggest challenges Scotland faces now and in years to come, delivering economic, social and environmental returns.
Read more:
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