Can we learn to be nicer? Many feel the world is getting meaner. Antisocial behaviour is on the rise. One writer thinks the answer could be a return to Victorian-style education.
Call for morality lessons to stop meanness
Ultra-violence: A Clockwork Orange portrayed a society coming apart at the seams. Glossary
Stanley Kubrick - An American film director, producer, screenwriter and photographer. Widely considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, Kubrick's movies include The Killing, Spartacus, Dr Strangelove and Full Metal Jacket.
Roving - Constantly wandering from one place to another.
Brutalised - To treat someone in a needlessly violent and brutal way.
Edmund Burke - Irish statesman, economist and philosopher. Often regarded as the founder of modern British conservatism.
French Revolution - The overthrow (and subsequent execution) of France’s king and aristocratic government in 1789. The revolution became infamous and influential worldwide.
Sweeney Todd - A famous character and the protagonist of the penny dreadful serial The String of Pearls. Todd murders his customers and gives them to his associate, who bakes them into meat pies.
Juvenile delinquency - When a young person habitually commits criminal acts.
Conservatives - A traditionally right-wing or centre right political party in the UK. Members are sometimes called Tories.
Laughing gas - Nitrous oxide; a powerful painkiller which is also used as a recreational drug.
Labour - Britain's main left-of-centre political party.
Millennial - A person born between the early 1980s and the late 1990s.
Recession - A period of economic decline. A recession occurs when a country’s Gross Domestic Product falls for six months in a row.
Gen Z - Short for Generation Z, meaning people born in the late 1990s and early 2000s.