Playlist for Thursday 12 Jan 2016

How's this for a pic n mix of tunes to transport a forty-something back to her salad days when a packet of crisps was 12p?! 10 - 12midday every Thursday on The Pulse HR. Listen on the TuneIn app or HERE:  (Please excuse haphazard lack of capital letters.)

Lisa lisa - I wonder if I take you home

Janet Jackson - Nasty

Joyce sims - come in to my life

Loose Ends - hanging on a string

Terence Trent D’arby

Ashford and Simpson - Solid

Imagination - Body Talk

Shannon - Let the music play

Mantronix Got to have your love

Nu Shooz l- I can’t wait

Maxi Priest - close to you

Cheryl Lynn- Got to be real

Oletta Adams

U2 - Still haven’t found

Culture Club - Victims

Bjork - play dead

Simple Minds - Don’t you forget about me

Madonna - Borderline

Tears For Fears - Mad World

Luther Vandross - If only for one night

Kylie Minogue Where the Wild Roses Grow

Elton John - Your song

Belinda Carlisle - I feel free

Stranglers - Golden Brown

Bananarama-Cruel summer

David Bowie - Life on Mars

David Bowie - Modern Love

Queen - Killer Queen

Neneh Cherry -Woman’s world

Duran Duran - save a prayer

Billy Joel - Allentown

UB40 - Don’t break my heart

Pet Shop Boys - What have i done

Scritti Politi

The Police - So Lonely

Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Two tribes

Howard Jones - new song

Billy Idol - Eyes without a face

Abba - Slipping through my fingers

Janis Lan/ Ian - At seventeen

Train of thought on today's events.

I read this http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/veteran-spy-gave-fbi-info-alleging-russian-operation-cultivate-donald-trump at the end of October last year. Why is it only just coming out now and why is everyone acting surprised? They sat on this info and let the election happen without releasing it.

This whole showergate thing is good for Trump. Looking at twitter this morning, looks like it’s just be something else for everyone to laugh at and will detract from any present deals/ appointments/ changes/ repeals he's announcing. And it’s possible that it won't lead to any real consequences for him. If this is all they had over him, it wasn't much, really, in and of itself. I don't believe he would actually give a toss about it. We could assume that now it's out, it reduces Putins leverage but maybe it's just a bait and switch distraction. The world thinks that's all there is so the heat is off him. However they probably have something far more powerful in the bank to keep him acting in their favour. How he gets his kicks doesn’t really matter to me. What matters is the mentality of someone who is doing it out of pure venom for a perceived “enemy”- as Richard Branson said when he was recounting a lunch he had with Trump (http://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2016/10/25/rciahrd-branson-entrepreneur-erin-burnett-out-front.cnn).  

Also, as several people have stated on twitter: "The scandal isn't about pissing on a bed. The scandal is treason. And Russia, via Donald, pissing on the world."

"It's simple. Getting gratification from a kink - Not bad  Paying women to defile a bed a man you're obsessed with once slept in - Very bad"

I'm not shocked at all. It's not even making me laugh as this whole thing has turned me into a humourless freestanding shoe cupboard. I can just about do what I'm supposed to in terms of storing a certain amount of pairs of shoes. But I now feel like someone has tried to stuff too many pairs piled up untidily upon each other and it's too much. The door won't shut properly; random individual shoes keep falling out and being stuffed back in. I cannot, as a self-respecting shoe cupboard that needs to stay mentally on point to deal with a daughter that I have brought up and deposited into the world through no fault of her own, serviceably  engage with any more shoes. In this way my usually capacious appetite for digestion of current affairs (of all flavours variously- bonkers, disastrous, tragic) is impaired. I'm turning away when I shouldn't be. I shouldn't be burying my head in the collective bosom of of Real Housewives in active avoidance of engaging with current affairs. This scares me.