2026-02-20
22 分钟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 are 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 peccadilloes 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 Giuffre,
who claimed that Jeffrey Epstein forced her to have sex with Mr. Mountbatten-Windsor.