`The Queen'

The movie The Queen has interesting themes. Helen Mirren, playing HM in the week of Diana's death, asks for "restrained grief and sober mourning" in accordance with the values of the World War II generation. Fat chance. In our age, the fake grief of the conspiracy-theory fuelled millions who'd never met Diana was considered sufficient reason to force the Queen to exhibit her own emotions live on TV. It's an outrage.

Judy Stove on Greeks

Judy Stove's paper for the Restraint Project, `Nothing too much: self-control from Homer to Aristotle', is published in Classicum 32 (2) (OCt 2006), 19-31. Great work!