BBCNEWS Dateline London November 11, 2017
A reminder of a far less successful bit of foreign meddling where saudi intervention has singularly failed to end the rebellion. Then, a little before midnight, in a country where politics is usually conducted well out of sight and change agreed by consensus, news of an Anti Corruption purge which snared serving government ministers and past ones, and even members of the countrys extensive royal family. The attorney general tells us this is only phase one. Nesrine, a phases ordered, it is said, by king salmans son, the crown prince. What is he up to . Too much, the heir to the throne is very m...