Martin Cook
@cookieaob.bsky.social
Interested in gardening, politics, art, cryptic crosswords, sport, wine and funny stuff, no particular order. Very proud grandad to Sid and Penelope Jane. Not a retired skier.
Grifter.
So Nigel Farage, who claims to be standing up for ordinary working people, has taken hundreds of thousands of pounds so far this year for a handful of hours as a "brand ambassador" for a gold bullion company, while facilitating a £9m donation from a crypto millionaire
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/11/n...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/11/n...
Nigel Farage Accepts Another £135,000 From Gold Bullion Firm for Just 12 Hours Work
The Reform UK leader has pocketed £415,500 so far this year to act as the company's “Brand Ambassador”
bylinetimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Grifter.
Another glorious morning St Heln's beach.
December 11, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Another glorious morning St Heln's beach.
Thiel and Palantir, never to be trusted.
“The Swiss army…was even interested in the purchase of Palantir software last year. An internal report shows that the fear that Palantir will pass on confidential data of the Swiss army to the American intelligence services CIA & NSA prevented the army staff from continuing the project.” 12/8/25…1/
Überwachungstechnologie: Wie hartnäckig Palantir die Schweiz umwarb
Das umstrittene Tech-Unternehmen blitzte wieder und wieder ab. Teil 1 unserer Recherche.
www.republik.ch
December 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Thiel and Palantir, never to be trusted.
That Brexit cretin Spock Redwood a Lord. Ludicrous.
December 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
That Brexit cretin Spock Redwood a Lord. Ludicrous.
Free speech my arse.
December 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Free speech my arse.
Wow. Take that chump.
Wrote a letter to Donald Trump, putting him right on a couple of points about London. This one stood out: London’s life expectancy is better than *all 50* US states.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-a...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-a...
December 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Wow. Take that chump.
Absolutely gorgeous day on the East Wight.
December 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Absolutely gorgeous day on the East Wight.
Collected a load of seaweed this morning, blown in on Easterly winds. The asparagus will thank me. The celeriac, garlic and broad beans all thriving.
December 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Collected a load of seaweed this morning, blown in on Easterly winds. The asparagus will thank me. The celeriac, garlic and broad beans all thriving.
The world is ending.
An absolute horrific nightmare of two AI bots caught in a loop with each other is the perfect example of the total nothingness of AI “brains”.
December 10, 2025 at 7:57 AM
The world is ending.
The Aussies are right.
Short videos entertain, but constant scrolling is reshaping how children think, sleep and feel.
How short-form videos could be harming young minds
Short videos entertain, but constant scrolling is reshaping how children think, sleep and feel.
tcnv.link
December 10, 2025 at 7:37 AM
The Aussies are right.
Good thread by Russ, this bit really resonates.
Thatchersim — still the basis of so much of our economy — worked by making us buy things we already owned, using money we borrowed from our grandkids, and then cancelling the maintenance and calling it "savings".
And now everything is broken.
And now everything is broken.
December 10, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Good thread by Russ, this bit really resonates.
I'm watching this Polly woman on Newsnight talking utter tripe. I looked at her company website....surprise surprise, utter tripe. Who pays these people?
December 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I'm watching this Polly woman on Newsnight talking utter tripe. I looked at her company website....surprise surprise, utter tripe. Who pays these people?
The dissonance here. Ludicrous.
POLITICO: You pardoned the former president of Honduras even though he was convicted in a massive intl drug trafficking scheme. How is that 0 tolerance on drug trafficking?
TRUMP: Well I don't know him and I know very little about him other than people said it was like an Obama-Biden type set up
TRUMP: Well I don't know him and I know very little about him other than people said it was like an Obama-Biden type set up
December 9, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The dissonance here. Ludicrous.
Reposted by Martin Cook
Reform councillor's firm fined over illegal worker
Seaham Reform councillor's firm fined over illegal worker - BBC News
Durham councillor Andrew Harrison says the worker was legal and he is appealing against the fine.
www.bbc.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Reform councillor's firm fined over illegal worker
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How do we know which farmers get the bailout?
AcreTrader is buying up distressed farms, renting them back to the farmer and they then get a low wage. These farms have been in generations of ownership.
Please look into this yourselves! Its atrocious!
VANCE AND THEIL !!!
AcreTrader.com
AcreTrader is buying up distressed farms, renting them back to the farmer and they then get a low wage. These farms have been in generations of ownership.
Please look into this yourselves! Its atrocious!
VANCE AND THEIL !!!
AcreTrader.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
How do we know which farmers get the bailout?
AcreTrader is buying up distressed farms, renting them back to the farmer and they then get a low wage. These farms have been in generations of ownership.
Please look into this yourselves! Its atrocious!
VANCE AND THEIL !!!
AcreTrader.com
AcreTrader is buying up distressed farms, renting them back to the farmer and they then get a low wage. These farms have been in generations of ownership.
Please look into this yourselves! Its atrocious!
VANCE AND THEIL !!!
AcreTrader.com
Of course he does have a strong history of doing the right thing.....my arse.
Trump said he wants to "do what's right" in the media war brewing between Netflix, Paramount, and Warner Bros.
Trump says he just wants to 'do what's right' in the Warner deal
Trump said he wants to "do what's right" in the media war brewing between Netflix, Paramount, and Warner Bros.
www.businessinsider.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Of course he does have a strong history of doing the right thing.....my arse.
Radio 4 - Listen Live - BBC Sounds
Listen live to Radio 4 on BBC Sounds
www.bbc.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Mind boggling.
From @theathletic.com: A 3-year-old Indian toddler has become the youngest player in chess history to earn an official FIDE rating after beating opponents in their 20s.
Indian boy, aged 3, becomes youngest rated chess player in history
Born in 2022, Sarwagya has been rated by FIDE, the international governing body of chess, after beating several adults.
nyti.ms
December 8, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Mind boggling.
This this this. The treatment of Begum was despicable.
The exact people now saying "Nigel Farage was young and foolish at school" (to excuse his racism, bullying and harassment of fellow pupils at Dulwich College) are the same people who said "Shamima Begum was old enough to know what she was doing".
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This this this. The treatment of Begum was despicable.
How anyone with an ounce of sense can look at what Brexit had done to our economy and think that Farage is the answer? What have these dimwits got between their ears? Then there is the racism, open grifting and foreign funding from Putin and Bitcoin gangsters to consider. Wake up people.
December 8, 2025 at 9:16 AM
How anyone with an ounce of sense can look at what Brexit had done to our economy and think that Farage is the answer? What have these dimwits got between their ears? Then there is the racism, open grifting and foreign funding from Putin and Bitcoin gangsters to consider. Wake up people.
Reposted by Martin Cook
December 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
All of this. We must fight tooth and nail to keep this lying racist grifter out of power.
Farage hopes he can breeze into power without scrutiny. But his racism, corrupt donations, shady links to Russia and MAGA… make it harder for him to hide. And his tantrum reactions to being challenged reveal him for the nasty inadequate he really is.
#NeverPM
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-wheels...
#NeverPM
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-wheels...
The Wheels Are Falling off the Nigel Farage Project
The Reform leader's increasingly rattled public appearances betray a growing sense that the opportunity of a lifetime could be about to slip from his fingers
www.adambienkov.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
All of this. We must fight tooth and nail to keep this lying racist grifter out of power.
Ludicrous hair day.
December 6, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Ludicrous hair day.
Really busy day. Pope's Grotto, a remnant from the 18th century property of Alexander Pope. ' A little learning is a dangerous thing ' 'To err is human, to forgive divine' 'fools rush in....' all his aphorisms, that I assumed were Shakespeare.
December 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Really busy day. Pope's Grotto, a remnant from the 18th century property of Alexander Pope. ' A little learning is a dangerous thing ' 'To err is human, to forgive divine' 'fools rush in....' all his aphorisms, that I assumed were Shakespeare.
Christ this months Guardian genius xword was a struggle. Spoiler alert....
December 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Christ this months Guardian genius xword was a struggle. Spoiler alert....