The story about how rich kids profit from the way they use the internet and poorer kids don’t just puts me in mind of a saying that we all tend to get wrong.

This is how we think it goes: “One law for the rich and one law for the poor”. Meaning, we believe, that there is a different law for each. We can discuss whether that’s true but we would struggle to doubt it.

But the original line is starker and I think far, far nastier. It goes:

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

Le Lys Rouge [The Red Lily] – Anatole France, poet (1894)