An A-Z of my CDs: P

Well after a few days leave, it's time to start regular blogging again with the latest episode in my personal tour of my CDs. This week I was tempted to go with Placebo, Pulp or The Proclaimers but in reality I couldn't really not go with the Pet Shop Boys - making them (by my reckoning) the third eighties pop duo to feature.

So, here's West End Girls:

and here's What Have I Done To Deserve This? featuring Dusty Springfield:

Enjoy! An entry for Q next week...

Andrew

Virtual Christmas Card

Merry Christmas from snowy Scotland

All the very best,

Andrew

It's Friday...

...but it's also Christmas Eve! If all goes well, this post will go live just as my flight from Bristol to Edinburgh takes off, bearing me homewards to the bosom of my family, via the shops of Edinburgh where I will be completing my Christmas shopping!

No doubt when I'm out and about I'll hear lots of Christmas songs and maybe the odd carol, like this one, sung by the peerless Annie Lennox:

Andrew

Where I Stand

Every since I was a teenager I've considered myself a Social/Liberal Democrat. 

Growing up in Scotland in the eighties, it is, perhaps, no surprise that I consider myself to be left of centre, although this has always been tempered by a belief in free markets (subject to some limited qualifications). My formative years were also probably responsible for the develpment of my liberal inclinations, albeit in a much more difficult way to quantify.

The Political Compass is a tool which seeks to assess where you stand not just in terms of crude left and right but also plots this in relation to Authoritarian/Libetarian principles. 

Here is where I stand:

You can take the test here. Feel free to report your results below!

Andrew

An A-Z of my CDs: O

Hands up who guessed that my entry for "O" would be Ocean Colour Scene, purveyors of Brit Pop since 1989:

So guesses for "P" next... as ever post them below! 

Andrew

To get a link to the previous posts in this series, click on the page link to the right.