People confuse happiness with pleasure. *

Good episode of Archive on 4 tonight: A History of the Stiff Upper Lip

Louisa Foxe reveals the changing British attitude towards the expression of emotion.

There's just too much of it about on the media. It's like the new religion. Society is rudderless. Even the cult of global warming is founded on the bedrock of emotional turmoil. And don't bother talking to me about the mass hysteria when Lady Di kicked the bucket. It's all her fault.

* Peter Hitchens