“So the former Prince Andrew, now forever to be referred to as Mister Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, after spending less than a day in jail …”
“Yep the British government is now considering taking him off the roster of those eligible to be on the royal succession list.”
“Seriously that is what concerns you today? With the US piling up its formidable arsenal near Iran, with the continuing genocide in Gaza and the Israeli settlers beating up those living in the West Bank, with the start of the fourth year of the Ukraine Russia war…”
“Is Mehmud Abbas still wagging his tail?”
“Haven’t said anything for a while – anyway uncertainty reins in spite of the widely divergent narrative of the protagonists, nothing is resolved and…”
“Sounds like the Pakistan economy – it remains fragile while the stakeholders reckon their rosy narrative predominates with the public.”
“Hmm the Finance Minister reckons the fault is with the Fourth Estate.”
“That Estate is majorly discredited as the viewership plummets, but speaking as a viewer I do not know what report is fake or not on the social media, and the increasing use of Artificial Intelligence is making it impossible to determine which is true and which false and…”
“Did you know the Fourth Estate was added onto the first three.”
“When?”
“Not sure but sometime in the last century. Anyway according to a historical classification of the social and political power derived from pre-revolutionary France and that revolution came in 1789 the first estate was the clergy, the second the nobility and the third the commoners.”
“So terribly dated.”
“I am not sure if it is – from where I am sitting nobility occupies an estate above that of commoners.”
“But the clergy…”
“Can on occasion be persuaded is all I will say, but going back to the Fourth Estate – those days are gone…”
“Well sometimes the mainstream media operates like the clergy.”
“Right anyway going back to the former Queen’s second son, he is eighth in line, so seven have to die before him to…”
“It’s not the probability but the possibility however remote…”
Copyright Business Recorder, 2026
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