Friday Links: Drug kingpins, aspirant Royals, The Arms Trade, Zero Chinese travel and misunderstood cable

The Laos Golden Triangle economic zone, poor old Albanian royals and why cable businesses shouldn’t be ignored plus sterling/dollar parity. Further reading for the weekend.

Outer Range – a TV series worth paying attention to…

OK so this isn’t a further reading link, more of an aside. We live in an age of endless wonderful TV content. I’m a big fan of The Wire for instance and there’s a new riff on that wonderful series broadcast now on US TV called We Own This City which looks cracking.

In the meantime, I thoroughly recommen…