1. What's the point of social mobility? It still leaves some in the gutter (Guardian)
Nick Clegg's desire to fast-stream clever kids out of deprivation leaving the rest facing shabby prospects is hardly communism, says Zoe Williams.
2. Leave Business Secretary Vince Cable alone – he’s the moral centre of this coalition (Daily Telegraph)
The Business Secretary, Vince Cable, has stayed loyal to the government without surrendering his identity, says Peter Oborne.
3. We need to look beyond the fuss about Beecroft (Independent)
Not all the proposals are undesirable, says this leading article. There is red tape and also necessary regulation.
4. It is in Greece’s interest to leave the euro (Financial Times)
If the country stays in the eurozone, it will die a slow death, writes Costas Lapavitsas.
5. Germany is in clover thanks to this crisis (Times) (£)
Low interest rates and booming property prices are down to southern pain, not hard work, says Stephen King.
6. Call it Plan A, B or C, just give us some growth (Independent)
Osborne wants to delay popular tax cuts but even the IMF is calling for policies to promote growth, says Steve Richards.
7. Egypt's revolution won't end with the presidential election (Guardian)
Beyond Tahrir Square Egypt's uprising is one that intersects with grassroots struggles in Europe, says Jack Shenker: that's what the elites fear most.
8. Whaddya want? More, not less, Nato – now! (Times) (£)
David Aaronovitch argues that the naive Chicago protests ignore the inconvenient truths of success in Libya and other missions to bring security.
9. The wobbly panda won’t fall yet (Financial Times)
China still has the firepower to engineer growth, says David Pilling - something it badly needs in a year of fraught political transition.
10. A lesson from Serbia (Guardian)
As the Balkan economies struggle, the temptation for nationalist solutions will grow, says Misha Glenny. Europe must take note.