Chris Cook
@chriscook.news
ft senior reporter. south london nationalist. articles with my byline get posted automagically on @cook.report
The sorting of the bones of Cnut the Great is a rather timely reminder of a moment when Denmark and England might have become one state: www.winchester.ac.uk/News-and-Eve...
Media Articles - University of Winchester
www.winchester.ac.uk
January 20, 2026 at 8:20 PM
The sorting of the bones of Cnut the Great is a rather timely reminder of a moment when Denmark and England might have become one state: www.winchester.ac.uk/News-and-Eve...
why do politicians feel the need to speak at such length.
January 19, 2026 at 9:30 AM
why do politicians feel the need to speak at such length.
A story from last year that’s more salient than ever by @lauramdubois.ft.com, Davjd Djambazov and me ::: Europe builds for war as arms factories expand at triple speed : www.ft.com/content/ce61...
Europe builds for war as arms factories expand at triple speed
FT radar analysis reveals historic scale of rearmament, stretching over 7mn sq metres of new development
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January 18, 2026 at 6:37 PM
A story from last year that’s more salient than ever by @lauramdubois.ft.com, Davjd Djambazov and me ::: Europe builds for war as arms factories expand at triple speed : www.ft.com/content/ce61...
Robert Jenrick's speech, now entering its 53rd hour
January 15, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Robert Jenrick's speech, now entering its 53rd hour
well I liked the first part of being involved in two historically huge cup upsets in two consecutive seasons
Really feel like I’ve got my old Crystal Palace back
January 10, 2026 at 1:52 PM
well I liked the first part of being involved in two historically huge cup upsets in two consecutive seasons
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Really feel like I’ve got my old Crystal Palace back
January 10, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Really feel like I’ve got my old Crystal Palace back
update: a spokesman for Summers says he didn't know he was one of the executors of Epstein's will
December 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
update: a spokesman for Summers says he didn't know he was one of the executors of Epstein's will
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🚨 New article by @chriscook.news
Epstein appointed Staley and Summers as executors of his will
Newly released DoJ documents point to deep ties between influential men and late sex offender
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December 23, 2025 at 12:19 PM
🚨 New article by @chriscook.news
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wrote about Kalshi's business being about 5% truth machine/95% sportsbook (even if they refuse to mention it)
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Prediction markets barely make money; sportsbooks make money
Kalshi’s ‘truth machine’ is financialising differences of opinion (about sports)
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December 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
wrote about Kalshi's business being about 5% truth machine/95% sportsbook (even if they refuse to mention it)
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I'd hoped normal service might resume today. I woke up with a tight 600 words mentally typed out on the suspension of the US-UK technology deal. The subject line included a terrific pun.
Then, I went for a walk in Sydney.
Then, I went for a walk in Sydney.
I'm exhausted
And this was a fairly light day
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December 17, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I'd hoped normal service might resume today. I woke up with a tight 600 words mentally typed out on the suspension of the US-UK technology deal. The subject line included a terrific pun.
Then, I went for a walk in Sydney.
Then, I went for a walk in Sydney.
an update: some amazing work by the Belarusian Investigative Centr giving a sense of how massive the Rustakt drone network, now partly Chinese-owned, is investigatebel.org/en/investiga...
December 5, 2025 at 1:11 PM
an update: some amazing work by the Belarusian Investigative Centr giving a sense of how massive the Rustakt drone network, now partly Chinese-owned, is investigatebel.org/en/investiga...
big news!
December 4, 2025 at 8:57 AM
big news!
It’s unusual to see an organisation see Conquest’s second law - that you can explain organisations’ behaviour by assuming they are controlled by their enemies - embraced so enthusiastically and literally
Your Party conference votes for allowing dual membership:
"Members shall be permitted to hold membership in other national political parties where they have been approved by the CEC as aligning with the Party’s values, to include those with whom the Party cooperates electorally."
69% majority
"Members shall be permitted to hold membership in other national political parties where they have been approved by the CEC as aligning with the Party’s values, to include those with whom the Party cooperates electorally."
69% majority
November 30, 2025 at 11:29 AM
It’s unusual to see an organisation see Conquest’s second law - that you can explain organisations’ behaviour by assuming they are controlled by their enemies - embraced so enthusiastically and literally
if anyone wants to regift panettones to me, I will eat them all. A no-regifting guarantee.
The absolute truth from @nigella.bsky.social on panettone
November 30, 2025 at 9:59 AM
if anyone wants to regift panettones to me, I will eat them all. A no-regifting guarantee.
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Chinese parts supplier takes stake in leading Russian drone maker on.ft.com/440b1s5
Chinese parts supplier takes stake in leading Russian drone maker
Tie-up marks new level of co-operation between Moscow and Beijing’s military industrial complexes
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November 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Chinese parts supplier takes stake in leading Russian drone maker on.ft.com/440b1s5
a big deal on the geopolitics around Ukraine — we’ve found a Chinese drone supplier taking a stake in a Russian military supply company: www.ft.com/content/e907...
Chinese parts supplier takes stake in leading Russian drone maker
[FREE TO READ] Tie-up marks new level of co-operation between Moscow and Beijing’s military industrial complexes
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November 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
a big deal on the geopolitics around Ukraine — we’ve found a Chinese drone supplier taking a stake in a Russian military supply company: www.ft.com/content/e907...
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🚨 New article by @chriscook.news
Chinese exporters charge Russia more for war supplies as sanctions bite
Price increases show that western restrictions are limiting Moscow’s capabilities, Bank of Finland research finds
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November 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
🚨 New article by @chriscook.news
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Trump envoys issue ultimatum to Ukraine to sign peace deal by Thursday on.ft.com/4rd0JP1
Trump envoys issue ultimatum to Ukraine to sign peace deal by Thursday
Hardline message over US-Russia plan laid out at volatile meeting in Kyiv sparks alarm among European allies
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November 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Trump envoys issue ultimatum to Ukraine to sign peace deal by Thursday on.ft.com/4rd0JP1
This is a big moment for Europe. on.ft.com/3K3kM1S
Ukraine faces choice of losing ‘dignity’ or American support, Volodymyr Zelenskyy warns
[FREE TO READ] Donald Trump wants Kyiv to agree to US-Russian peace plan by Thursday
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November 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
This is a big moment for Europe. on.ft.com/3K3kM1S
This is terrible news - QEF is a wonderful, important, effective charity. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Leatherhead charity for disabled people to close after 90 years - BBC News
The QEF says it is winding down as it faces a "challenging financial situation".
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
This is terrible news - QEF is a wonderful, important, effective charity. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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"everyone knows the project won’t work; it is now just a matter of letting MBS down gently"
Deep dive on Neom focuses on The Line - a building planned at a scale that would run from London to the Norfolk coast but in the desert. Absolutely wild, absolutely doomed ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
Deep dive on Neom focuses on The Line - a building planned at a scale that would run from London to the Norfolk coast but in the desert. Absolutely wild, absolutely doomed ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
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November 6, 2025 at 7:28 AM
"everyone knows the project won’t work; it is now just a matter of letting MBS down gently"
Deep dive on Neom focuses on The Line - a building planned at a scale that would run from London to the Norfolk coast but in the desert. Absolutely wild, absolutely doomed ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
Deep dive on Neom focuses on The Line - a building planned at a scale that would run from London to the Norfolk coast but in the desert. Absolutely wild, absolutely doomed ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
A big development: HMEL, the Mittal joint venture that owns the refinery has responded to our story - and disclosed that it is pulling out of buying Russian crude.
October 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
A big development: HMEL, the Mittal joint venture that owns the refinery has responded to our story - and disclosed that it is pulling out of buying Russian crude.
the latest by me and Polina Ivanova:
October 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM
the latest by me and Polina Ivanova:
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FT Investigation: How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto. Some great work here www.ft.com/content/2ea2...
FT Investigation: How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto
The president and his family have built a rapidly growing digital assets empire which has been fuelled by the administration’s industry-friendly policies
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October 16, 2025 at 6:19 AM
FT Investigation: How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto. Some great work here www.ft.com/content/2ea2...