Into the play-offs

I made the most of a rare opportunity to watch Leeds play on Sky Sports today. We lost 2-0 to Preston North End, the very writing of which seems oh so wrong. On what I saw, we'd be in a good position if we wanted to form a boy band, but would perhaps have less chance of staying in the Premiership should we happen to beat Preston (yes, them again) in the play-offs then either Watford or Crystal Palace in the final. However, it turned out that David Blackwell was experimenting with new players and a new formation, so I'm sure the first team will whip PNE's ass.

I also went to see Good Night and Good Luck. Very pertinent to the current situation in the UK, with an increasingly authoritarian government using the media fuelled climate of fear to erode civil liberties and the rule of law, both domestic and international. A Guardian journalist wrote the other week that "one cannot escape the fact that the intellectual and moral tone of British society enables Blair." You see the truth of this the more time you spend outside the UK. People here at least think about things, they keep themselves informed about other topics than how big the latest flat screen TVs are, and it's not considered acceptable to be openly and totally selfish about how you live your life.