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Chris Cook

@chriscook.news
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FT enterprise editor. South London nationalist. Articles with my byline get posted automagically on @cook.report

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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 21/09/2026
SWIFT relies on sending banks to do the police work. The new leak shows us how the Kyrgyz banks, first, then UAE banks (esp First Abu Dhabi) let entities move billions into the traditional interbank system. FAB let A7 open accounts and send $1.8bn (They say they've spotted and stopped this).
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 03/09/2026
is there anything to be said for another by-election?
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 23/06/2026
think of poor Jordan Ayew
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 27/05/2026
A bad-tempered match involving this guy once inspired the amazing headline “Queen in brawl at Palace”
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 23/03/2026
Our latest on the Orban System: how a dozen or so businessmen closely tied to the Hungarian premier hit gold from state contracts when he took over www.ft.com/content/70c2...
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 26/02/2026
@mattwoosie.bsky.social Summarise the game more fully for those of us queuing outside, please Matt
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 20/02/2026
2) there's been a wave of pop-up institutions that take oil and sell it, which makes figuring it all out quite taxing. Turns out, most of them are sharing this email server. And: if you line them up, you can see the strategy of setting up and disposing of companies in real time.
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 20/02/2026
Two very big things here: 1) since sanctioning of Rosneft and Lukoil, the largest exporter of Russian crude is an entity called "Redwood Global". It SO HAPPENS that they share an e-mail server with a group of Azeri traders who EU sanctions officials believe are pals with the chief exec of Rosneft.
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 17/02/2026
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 15/01/2026
Robert Jenrick's speech, now entering its 53rd hour
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 07/01/2026
Could be worse
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 24/09/2025
This is wrong. a) The article literally states we did the analysis with AI. We used semantic search to ID paragraphs relating to a topic, then grouped text into categories by their meaning. b) The model outputs were, as below, boolean indicators about whether something fit a category.
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 04/09/2025
I was trying to find a form of words to preserve their anonymity while meeting this obligation in our editorial code.
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 15/08/2025
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 12/08/2025
The two types of reader: those who like the story and those who think we are providing material assistance to the enemy on.ft.com/46OwOFn
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 10/08/2025
the way they fire off fireworks and silver foil around trophy winners makes me think the FA is worried about protecting the team from guided missiles
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 19/05/2025
I feel like these messages are going to make for some confusing messaging
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 17/05/2025
Conversely, we estimate the account called “SUN” may be sitting on a $66mn loss at current prices. (This account is widely speculated to be Justin Sun, but he won’t confirm or deny.)
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 14/05/2025
by @joemillerjr.ft.com and me: what has Doge actually done?
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 12/05/2025
I hadn’t really noticed how much our diagram of $MELANIA ended up looking like Trump.
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 15/03/2025
I think Croydon is not disputed anymore: it’s definitely not Surrey these days, they don’t want us, the people who remember the before-times are quite elderly and the local micro-nationalist project (Crystal Palace FC) is v clear about where things lie
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 06/03/2025
(this is potentially good for journalism.)
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 06/03/2025
DOGE is coming for the PowerPoints.
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 03/03/2025
out of interest, do you know what Tucker’s father did…?
Voice of America
In the summer of 1986, President Reagan announced his intention to nominate
Carlson as an associate director of the United States Information Agency to succeed Ernest Eugene Pell.
Carlson became director of Voice of America, a U.S. government-funded, state-owned multimedia agency which serves as the United States federal
government's official institution for non-military, external broadcasting. [15] |t broadcasts 24 hours a day in nearly 50 languages to more than 130 million people around the world, with a full-time staff of 3,000 and a part-time staff of 1,200.
Carlson was the longest-serving director in VOA's 50-year history.
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 28/02/2025
By a dream team of colleagues: how a Bangladeshi minister close to Sheikh Hasina became a buy-to-let oligarch in the UK and Dubai after taking office.
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 08/02/2025
I always feel like the northern catholic numbers are the most interesting, esp as this is before anyone campaigns on Our NHS
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 05/02/2025
King using a headset
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 22/01/2025
has Musk considered this PR approach.
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 06/01/2025
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 31/12/2024
seriously: there is a GIF.
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 31/12/2024
The documents also include another intriguing thing: we all know Russia probes the air defences of neighbouring states by sending bombers to breach/skirt their airspace. We got a report from one of them, showing what data they collect. on.ft.com/3W2Zi7V
A map showing a bomber flight skirting Korea and Japan.
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 26/12/2024
I mean, these are proper “demand worry” numbers, but… uh they’re in the other direction. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 26/12/2024
3,000 kids, you say? It is hard to overstate how meh that is. But: from 2016.
Guardian screen grab from 2016:

The government claims an average of more than 3,000 secondary school places a month have been created since last September. The schools minister, Nick Gibb, said: "We want every parent to be able to send their children to a good local school. Despite rising pupil numbers the vast majority of parents are able to do so.”

"The government is investing billions of pounds creating new schools and new school places and through our free schools programme we want to open 500 more new schools during the five years of this parliament.”
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 25/12/2024
I wondered what he did next.
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 21/12/2024
Hollywood’s most ambitious reboot of a film series yet.
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 17/12/2024
We got new imagery yesterday from 📸 BlackSky, who spotted that build-up at Hmeimim, but also an Il-76 loading up on the right-hand apron, as well as 4 S-400 TELs sitting there parked up nearby.
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 17/12/2024
New imagery courtesy of 📸 Maxar: a build-up of Russian vehicles at Hmeimim (Sunday) and today on the quay at Tartus. The consolidation continues.
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 15/12/2024
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 12/12/2024
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 07/12/2024
Tough few weeks for her.
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 01/12/2024
Check out the threshold and footnote on timing
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 01/12/2024
The law doesn’t ask you to be run from here or by a permissible donor, just that you do business here.
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 26/10/2024
Am interested to know who exactly is saying the party of Margaret Thatcher would never choose someone from the midlands.
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 18/10/2024
This is such a complex problem: young people with autism and the counter-terrorism machine -- by the brilliant @helenwarrell.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/536c...
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 06/10/2024
An intriguing story. (Amid all the “should Ireland spend more on defence” talk, also worth asking if it needs to develop a standalone intelligence/counterintelligence unit, outside the military/garda.) apple.news/A0yVIsO4rT4q...
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 28/09/2024
It begins
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