As my love and knowledge of Eurovision grew over the last decade there has been one issue I can't quite understand: the perception of the UK in the contest this century. Everyone has a theory about why they don't do well. Or about why they shouldn't do well... why I should expect them to get zero points... why they deserve to fail. Where does this attitude come from?! Is it because they were such a powerhouse pre-2000 and now we're in a grand decades-long backlash? Is it Brexit (which obviously doesn't explain more than a few recent years)? Does their national too-cool-for-school attitude about ESC jinx them or actually cause them to send bad songs? With one very exceptional year in 2022, it typically feels so lame to like the UK entry. Or so I'm told. Add to that my own love for unabashedly optimistic & sincere (even corny) songs, and I find I'm so alone in my affection for SuRie's "STORM." Sigh. Sadly she'll only be remembered for weathering a stage jumper. But girl, you held your head up high through that storm, oh, oh. She was fantastic and I still love it.