Mycroft loved the modern age. It was so easy to observe the world from one's own living room, or the office, or a dozen other places that were otherwise isolating.
Take now, for instance—he was watching the Korean elections from the privacy of his bedroom, tissues piled around him, the thermometer on the night-stand, and he was wrapped in a blanket. Sherlock may never have suffered a cold, but Mycroft certainly was this week. But thanks to technology, he was still managing to keep up with the vote numbers as they came in. And by "keep up", he obviously meant "make sure they fall in the favour of the British".
Other people might frown on this denial of democracy, but it kept the world safe. Let the wrong person into power and it could be Nazi Germany all over again. No one (except Nazi fanatics and the people who would become the dictators) wanted that.
He wiped his nose so that it didn't drip onto his laptop, pulled the blanket closer around him, and quietly, subtly, changed a seven to a two…