One of the disappointing things about the United Kingdom’s entries in the Eurovision Song Contest – apart from, well, their quality – has been the reluctance of mainstream artists to put themselves forward; or perhaps of the BBC to ask them. Given the kitsch and potentially career-ending nature of the competition, it’s not surprising if acts aren’t tempted to risk their careers on it, but even so it’s odd that we don’t see them trying. Every now and again, though, someone shows an interest, and this time it’s Morrissey:

The former Smiths singer said he was “horrified” by the United Kingdom’s latest poor result in the competition. Rapper Daz Sampson could only manage a paltry 19th out of 24 countries in the most recent contest, which took place in Athens in May.

As a result of said trauma, Morrissey has been left troubled, with one issue in particular on his mind: “There is one question that I keep on asking: ‘why didn’t they ask me?’ That question keeps going round my head.”

A Song for Europe (or whatever it’s called now) with Morrissey vs Franz Ferdinand vs The Divine Comedy, say, would certainly be more entertaining than in recent years, assuming they made it past the Radio 2 listeners who choose the finalists. And that Coldplay aren’t involved.

Steve Webb, the Lib Dem MP for Northavon, has a track record of being down with new-fangled interweb technologies, which led to him winning the Hansard Society’s E-Democracy Award a couple of years ago. It should be little surprise then that he has become the latest of the party’s MPs to take up blogging, with his puntastic new site The Webb log. Welcome to the blogosphere.

Perhaps as a result of various New Year’s resolution, Steve takes the total number of active blog on Lib Dem Blogs to 111;, if we were mentioning cricket, which we’re not, it would be time for a superstitious hop of some sort.

This cutout figure was standing, for no obvious reason, at the edge of College Green opposite Parliament earlier in the week. (Best picture I could get on my phone in the evening light.)

It looked like it had microphones on the back of the shoulders and there was one of those temporary red and white striped huts nearby which could have had a camera in. Best guess anyone’s come up with is that it was in aid of David Tennant’s appearance on tonight’s episode of The Friday Night Project on Channel 4. Not sure if I can stomach Justin Lee Collins long enough to find out.

Mike draws my attention to a successful use of the internet in the last few days. Nicholas Hellen, a Sunday Times journalist responsible for a certain unpleasant email, now finds that highlighted when his name his entered into the world’s leading search engine. Abby Lee’s blog isn’t one I read (not my cup of tea), but I sympathise with her outing. Have a look at the email to see why.

Last month, Peter (to whom a belated happy birthday) defeated Serenata Flowers with the help of bloggers who were as annoyed as him that Serenata’s “third party marketeers” had been spamming blog comments. The company apologised and promised not to do it again.