Tuktuk preacherman: Cabinet is feeling the heat from the street over prices as it mulls when to devalue and by how much to cut subsidies. A three-minute video by a Distinguished Professor of Economics at Tuktuk University in Cairo went viral over the weekend, garnering more than 20 mn views. The driver, Mustafa Abdel Azim El Leithy, who was interviewed by Al Hayat TV’s Amr El Leithy (no relation) for his program “Wahed Men Al Nas,” gave an impassioned speech on the spike in prices and the government’s “neglect” of the average Egyptian, criticizing its focus on pomp and ceremony. Al Hayat’s pulled the video from its Youtube page with the limp excuse that the server managing its channel was overloaded. Amr El Leithy also appears to have suddenly felt the need to take a vacation, with sources at the channel speculating that the clip might have something to do with his need for a break.

The controversy comes as a taxi driver self-immolated in Alexandria, reportedly in protest of rising prices, according to AMAY, which posted a video of the act that’s simply too gruesome for even us to show.

“Tuktuk man” is being positioned by the domestic press as a warning sign that popular discontent is rising ahead of protests called for 11 November. This piece by El Watan’s Mahmoud Khalil is typical.