And that is a wrap from me too. Thank you so much for reading, and joining in the comments. As ever it has been a blast, and by far my favourite night’s work of the year. Here are the main takeaways:

• Sweden have won the Eurovision song contest for the seventh time.
• Loreen became only the second person to win the contest twice, after her song tonight, Tattoo, followed her success with Euphoria in 2012.
• The UK was hosting the contest in Liverpool on behalf of Ukraine. Ukraine’s Tvorchi came in sixth. The UK’s Mae Muller finished 25th, second-from-last.
• Finland’s Käärijä came second overall with Cha Cha Cha, which had topped the popular vote.
• Sweden will now host the 2024 contest on the 50th anniversary of Abba’s win with Waterloo.

Have a great rest of your night / day / afternoon. I am sure I will see you again somewhere around the Guardian’s website soon.

Here is the rest of our coverage tonight …

Josh Halliday on the victory for Sweden:

Jack Seale’s review for the Observer:

And from Nadeem Badshah a reminder of why the contest had to be held in Liverpool:

Here is the BBC’s social media sign off from the event. Presumably somebody at SVT has with a very heavy heart just opened up their new eurovision_2024_hosting_budget.xls file.

PA media are carrying some words from Loreen after her historic victory – only the second person and the first woman to win the contest twice.

She said: “It feels crazy. This is so surreal, man, I’m happy and I’m thankful, I’m thankful to all you guys out there that voted for me.

“The only thing I feel right now is so much love. Not in my wildest dreams did I think this was going to happen.”

She said sitting and hearing the votes coming in was “so surreal”.

She added: “I’ve lived this performance for six months. It’s been my whole life basically.”

Italy’s contestant, Marco Mengoni, has posted a little clip of him backstage wearing some fairy wings.

LucianEgon points out in the comments that once the results were announced there were “technicians working overtime to get that giant sunbed back on stage” for Loreen’s winning reprise.

I should imagine the technicians were especially annoyed, as they must have been halfway through reassembling Finland’s box!

Finland finished second with this, Cha Cha Cha by Käärijä.

Actually why don’t I just embed the entire YouTube video of the semi-final performance? The little grey cells are working a bit slowly at this time of night.

In the unlikely event you were following this blog because you couldn’t actually watch the show, rather than “second-screening” along with it, here is a bit of Sweden’s winner.

It hasn’t been an entirely popular victory for Sweden down below the line here tonight:

Lohtar said: “As an act of protest I shall Cha Cha Cha with my headphones on (not sure how the neighbours feel about Finland being robbed, or about getting sleep).”

Micktrick said: “Same as last year then. The best song finished second.”

Susanmarykelly said “Okay. I’m listening to it again and still don’t understand why Sweden won.”

I can see why Cha Cha Cha would have been a bolder choice, but sometimes you hoover up the popular vote by being a bit straght down the middle and picking up lots of eights, sevens and sixes even from the countries that haven’t given you a 12.

On the BBC, Mel Giedroyc has just called Loreen “our new Eurovision queen”.

You sure?