In the Economist, here
"....The fact is that most of Egypt’s 75m people struggle to get by, their ambitions thwarted by rising prices, appalling state schools, capricious judges, a plodding and corrupt bureaucracy and a cronyist regime that pretends democracy but in fact crushes all challengers and excludes all participation...
.....Given rising resentment against the government and a generation-long resurgence of religious feeling, and given the simple fact that Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s president of the past 27 years, is now 80 years old with no clear successor, it takes little imagination to conjure up an Islamic-tinged revolution ....
Lurking in the background then, as now, was the shadowy force of the Muslim Brotherhood.....it remains an open question whether Gamal Mubarak has the support of the army, police and intelligence services..."
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