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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 · 24/09/2026
Russia’s state oil giant is a key pillar in the Kremlin’s industrial money-laundering system —- and uses it itself to get its own cash back inside Russia.
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 21/09/2026
A big new story from us: a big new leak means that we can put numbers on the scale of A7 -- the Kremlin's huge money-laundering machine. $6.9bn laundered through the international banking system via SWIFT, with $1.1bn sent to StanChart alone. www.ft.com/content/3848...
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Kremlin-backed forgery scheme moved $6.9bn through global banks
FT finds thousands of Russian payments handled by Standard Chartered, Citigroup and other international groups in vast leak from inside fintech A7
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Tom Hannen @tomhannen.ft.com · 21/09/2026
Kremlin-backed forgery scheme moved $6.9bn through global banks - FT video produced by me, written by @chriscook.news & @chassnews.bsky.social FT story (1st 300 clicks free): as.ft.com/r/c4fd2c08-5...
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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Great reminder that, for all the advances with crypto, nothing beats old fashioned money laundering through the banking system
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 21/09/2026
A big new story from us: a big new leak means that we can put numbers on the scale of A7 -- the Kremlin's huge money-laundering machine. $6.9bn laundered through the international banking system via SWIFT, with $1.1bn sent to StanChart alone. www.ft.com/content/3848...
ft.com
Kremlin-backed forgery scheme moved $6.9bn through global banks
FT finds thousands of Russian payments handled by Standard Chartered, Citigroup and other international groups in vast leak from inside fintech A7
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 19/09/2026
you really have to admire Spurs’ commitment to being the funniest club in the premier league
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 14/09/2026
I think some of the stuff about cryptoassets being used for political donations is a bit muddled: a) there’s no reason a payment in crypto is hard to handle. You can easily make systems that only accept payments *after* a KYC process.
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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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Helen Warrell @helenwarrell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
James Orr: Reform’s head of policy, Cambridge theologian, architect of the new British right. Our profile for @ftweekend.com looks at his links to the Maga movement, Silicon Valley & European populists, and his life as a Cambridge lecturer with @ramshodgson.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/c2d0...
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James Orr and the gospel of the new British right
Reform’s policy head is a Cambridge theologian with an enviable contact book and a belief in ‘faith, family and flag’
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 02/09/2026
A big shock from Malta: the jury acquits the man accused of orchestrating the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia: as.ft.com/r/977679ea-7...
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Businessman acquitted in Maltese journalist’s murder trial
Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed by a car bomb in 2017
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A Death in Malta is her son's vg account of the murder, the context & the family's canpaign for justice. This made our Orwell prize konglist when I was on the judging panel a couple of yesrs ago www.penguin.co.uk/books/447844...
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A Death in Malta
'A murdered mother's fight for truth and justice lives on through the words of her youngest son' Angelina Jolie 'A work of rare vividness and authority, devastatingly told' Financial Times When Paul...
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 02/09/2026
A big shock from Malta: the jury acquits the man accused of orchestrating the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia: as.ft.com/r/977679ea-7...
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Businessman acquitted in Maltese journalist’s murder trial
Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed by a car bomb in 2017
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Christabel Cooper @christabelcoops.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Just quietly noting that the non-Farage vote in Clacton (36% x 44% turnout) is comfortably higher than the 10% of the constituency electorate needed for a petition to trigger another by-election if Farage is suspended from the Commons for 10 days...
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 13/08/2026
Thoughts with the education corrs on their big day, which has fallen this year into a deep domestic news hole.
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 10/08/2026
it's extremely bad news for football if clubs now feel obliged to police every banner held up by every group of fans in case someone is rude about someone somewhere. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Evangelos Marinakis: Nottingham Forest owner sues Crystal Palace over fan banner
Evangelos Marinakis is suing Crystal Palace for a banner unfurled by their fans depicting the Nottingham Forest owner holding a gun to midfielder Morgan Gibbs-White's head.
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 30/07/2026
the green areas here also have issues with, for example, getting space in the same cemeteries as family members — and basic upkeep. lots of municipal cemeteries are extremely ratty.
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 28/07/2026
as a general rule, delaying specialisation to 16 + the GCSE being well specified exams are positive feature of England’s system
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 15/07/2026
i was not aware of this group on getting the military out of british universites, but... if you take this contract, they've ascribed the full £77mn value to *all 20* universities participating (it's listed as £77mn on each individual HEI page). demilitariseeducation.com/data/partner...
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Demilitarise Education | dED
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 14/07/2026
ah, boo, mes amis (should have brought on Mateta)
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Clara Murray @claradoodle.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
New ↪️ ✨ : Allbirds recently pivoted its business from shoes to AI servers. Its share price spiked 860% but has plunged back down. That's a pattern repeated across many recent AI rebrands as former cancer drug and goldmining cos add buzzy AI-related terms to their names, I found
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
This piece on the "load-bearing internet people" and how AI-code writing is overwhelming the web's unheralded maintainers by @samlearner.bsky.social is absolutely terrific: brilliantly accessible without being patronising:
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Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?
Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers
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Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
wrote for the magazine about the open source software that underpins our digital lives, how it is being upended by AI code tools, and about maintainers as.ft.com/r/b7f62212-9...
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Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?
Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 10/07/2026
I feel like this man should meet @alanbeattie.bsky.social to talk about the bayeux not-a-tapestry
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 08/07/2026
Read this absolutely fantastic @FT deep dive on Palantir and its CEO Alex Karp, by my colleagues @chriscook.news @georgehammond.bsky.social and Alex Rogers as.ft.com/r/1b34df7a-4...
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The price of Palantir’s politics
Pushback to the tech group’s politics may threaten the core of its $330bn business
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 05/07/2026
all this, and Norway didn’t even bring on the real firepower (Strand Larsen)
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 05/07/2026
very confusing for me to want a footballing outcome that will make @robinwigglesworth.ft.com happy
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 05/07/2026
fewer weird slo-mo narrow depth of field shots of people in the crowd, more replays pls
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 01/07/2026
so much for the Flemish Block we’ve heard so much about, and their noted right wing play.
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 30/06/2026
but, I ask you, is this better than Olise destroying Millwall?
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Olise Crystal Palace Gesture
ALT: Olise Crystal Palace Gesture
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 27/06/2026
I appreciate Spence’s jaw protector is there for a serious reason, but I can’t escape that it also makes it look like he’s a little horsey.
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cookbot 🤖 @cook.report · 22/06/2026
🚨 New article by @chriscook.news
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Hundreds of ships wait outside Gulf for full opening of Hormuz Strait
Many tanker operators reluctant to move vessels until Iran and the US strengthen ceasefire deal
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 22/06/2026
big miss for boolean functions if we don't get a Andy v Nandy race.
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 14/06/2026
A lot of people are confused about who actually benefits from the triple lock
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 14/06/2026
Currently, the bookies' odds imply a 54 per cent chance of success on the most important question of the world cup: will at least one current palace player get a winner's medal.
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 12/06/2026
I would like both Bosnia and Canada to win.
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 09/06/2026
Still 4,000 tickets up for the US‘s first game in a home World Cup (maybe they’ve heard European Champion™ Chris Richards is a doubt).
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Helen Warrell @helenwarrell.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Russia & Iran are recruiting teenagers across Europe and the Middle East to conduct sabotage. From Kyiv to Tel Aviv, we reveal how minors are hired online, paid in crypto & exploited as disposable, deniable, single-use agents. From @christopherjm.ft.com & me www.ft.com/content/58da...
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The teenagers enlisted as agents of mayhem by Russia and Iran
Minors are being targeted to carry out hostile acts from Ukraine to western Europe and Israel
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
⚽ 36 points is usually enough to stay up in the Premier League West Ham have just been relegated on 39 -- the highest tally by a relegated side since Birmingham City went down on the same total in 2010-11
Line chart of Premier League 18th-place points since 1995-96. West Ham relegated in 2025-26 on 39 — highest in 15 years
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 24/05/2026
evergreen tweets.
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 20/05/2026
I edited a comment piece by Barney Frank, introduced an inadvertent error that he didn't notice when he read it back, a reader wrote a letter to point it out and he wrote back very graciously pretending the error was his -- so, all in all: good guy.
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 12/04/2026
so, uh, can we get JD Vance to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
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Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com · 12/04/2026
And how he dodges Brussels’ anti-graft measures. It takes money, time, patience and really good lawyers to report this kind of stuff. Buy a paper! #buyapaper www.ft.com/content/8973...
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How Hungary sidesteps Europe’s fraud watchdog
Viktor Orbán’s government has returned just 18% of funds flagged by the EU’s anti-graft body
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Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com · 12/04/2026
His relationships with oligarchs … www.ft.com/content/70c2...
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How Viktor Orbán’s oligarchs reaped billions in public contracts
FT investigation finds 13 associates of Hungary’s premier won large share of state works after he took power
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Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com · 12/04/2026
Then there is the Kremlin’s involvement … www.ft.com/content/34df...
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Kremlin backs covert campaign to keep Viktor Orbán in power
Vladimir Putin endorses plan drawn up by Russian consultancy that is under western sanctions
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Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com · 12/04/2026
Perhaps now is a good time to share the @financialtimes.com investigative series on Viktor Orban. To start with here’s the one we sent a reporter up in a plane for … (300 free clicks) as.ft.com/r/8cd54659-d...
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The riches of Viktor Orbán’s home village
[FREE TO READ] Hungary’s longtime leader is trailing in the polls ahead of April’s election, as the opposition alleges widespread corruption
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 12/04/2026
Hungary’s Orbán concedes defeat as opposition heads for landslide win ft.trib.al/QyIb0GJ
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Hungary’s Orbán concedes defeat as opposition heads for landslide win
Péter Magyar’s Tisza party was projected to win 136 out of 199 seats, giving it a two-thirds majority
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 30/03/2026
This is part 4 of a series on The Orban System - how the White House and Kremlin’s favourite EU leader really works
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 26/03/2026
argh, c’mon, various teams from this archipelago
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Alice Hancock @alicemhancock.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Has the war in Iran enabled the shadow fleet as the US eases sanctions? At least 15 Iranian oil tankers have passed through the Strait of Hormuz since Feb 28, earning Iran possibly around $140mn a day. Our interactive deep dive: ig.ft.com/shadow-fleet/ @nassosstylianou.bsky.social & Lucy Rodgers
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How the shadow fleet is capitalising on the chaos of war
The Iran conflict has offered the illicit oil trade a lifeline — while the easing of US sanctions widens a transatlantic rift
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 25/03/2026
I started reporting on the use of private messaging channels to evade accountability laws about 5,600 days ago
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