Squawk Box Garry Kasparov While it’s true that Kasparov is almost as good at playing chess as my iPhone, he is otherwise an idiot

Really poetic the way Britain has come full circle on its arc of colonialism and decline.

75 years after the end of British rule in India, the UK now fixes its hopes on a Punjabi Prime Minister to fight back against interminable economic decline and looming state failure.

Russian war kino is amazing - in the middle of the combat footage, they show an operator gently picking an icon up off the floor and placing it back on the shelf.

One of the more bizarre aspects of 21st century infowar is complete nonentities play acting as heads of state on Twitter.

Imagine if I started tweeting demands of the US government. I’m nobody - but thanks to Twitter I can pretend I’m the US President in exile!

Wife dressed the baby in a little hoodie with a bear face and ears on it. She seemed annoyed when I said she looked like a tiny Roman standard bearer. Oh well.

Tick tock. Season 2 is coming.