A friend, also in London from the US for a few days, was looking forward to a higher intellectual tone, an elevated public debate about war on Iraq, the crisis of capitalism, and Sartre. (The last bit I made up.) Instead, this is the story that dominates the UK papers: the suspected murder of two young girls in Cambridgeshire. And I thought the California dog-mauling case was provincial.Blair sorrow over girls' murder [Guardian]