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...laws. Mark Twain once said, history never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme. And I think that is precisely what is important for this project. What rhymes, so to speak, do young people recognise today in those clippings about the past? How were things done in the past? What were the consequences of actions in the past? And in this way, their thinking about today and...

...law, and the society whose attitudes it embodies. If you look at the complete passage, you will notice that Dickens gives us the judge's speech condemning Magwitch as an offender from infancy, ‘a scourge to society’ (p.452), but this view is then radically challenged by the ‘broad shaft of light’ that links the two together in equality before death. It is clear...