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Parlour & the Prince, Riyadh, Mohammed bin Salman, Ahmed bin Abdul Aziz

Parlour & the Prince

Though a fullfledged palace coup is unlikely, no other prince, albeit lower down the pecking order, can mobilise enough troops to depose a man with the coercive powers of the state at his disposal, and still more with the octogenarian King Salman fighting age and illness.

The Kremlin crease, Vladimir Putin, Valentina Tereshkova, Xi Jinping

The Kremlin crease

If not President for life quite yet in the manner of China’s Xi Jinping, the proposed constitutional amendment will allow him to seek another two terms in the Kremlin.