Today's Web Grab

You might enjoy:

• Tristram Hunt in Comment is free: Urban Britain is heading for Victorian levels of inequality
• Steven A.Cook in Slate: If you can cross the road in Cairo, you can understand democracy in the Middle East
• Michael Moran in the Economist’s Democracy in America blog: Why China has little fear from the current crop of American presidential candidates
• Nick Robinson: Both Brown and Cameron are competing for the ear of one man – Paul Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail