The Economist.

Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are both Gulf monarchies with vast oil and

gas reserves, both stable American allies that have had common cause for decades.

But they're having a tiff, one that could be bad news well outside the region.

And Jesse Jackson had an incredibly inclusive vision for America's Democratic Party, for the

country itself. Our obituaries editor says he campaigned for more than a half century from the

moment he witnessed the assassination

of Martin Luther King Jr.

But first... I think it's fair to say that most Britons love a little scuttlebutt about the royal family.

Indiscretions and peccadillos and petty squabbles, it's all a reminder of their very human failings.

They are no better than us, kind of thing.

But the king's brother, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, he is responsible

for way more scuttlebutt than the public bargained for, perhaps most of all the accusations

of Virginia Joufrey, who claimed that Jeffrey Epstein forced her to have sex with Mr. Mountbatten

Windsor. Just one of the events that have led to him being stripped of his titles and gently nudged

out of his house. As the Epstein-filed dumps have kept coming, Andrew's name and image keep cropping

up. And yesterday, on his 66th birthday, the cops came knocking. It's really an event without

precedent. Sonny Lockerun is a Britain writer at The Economist.

If you look at the papers today, the pictures of Andrew leaving the police station are plastered all over the front pages,

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