What do the Houthis want?

Perhaps they're making this up as they go along

I first learned about the Huthi rebels about 20 years ago when, as a diplomat in Yemen, I accompanied the British Ambassador to the Presidential Palace. There, the wily President Ali Abdallah Salih, who would later be killed by Huthis in 2017 after his alliance with them fell apart, told us about a new Shi’a militia movement, led by the Huthi family, op…