Chris Cook
@chriscook
ft reporter. south london nationalist. articles with my byline get posted automagically on @cook.report
A bad-tempered match involving this guy once inspired the amazing headline “Queen in brawl at Palace”
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...
@mattwoosie.bsky.social Summarise the game more fully for those of us queuing outside, please Matt
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.
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.
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.
I was trying to find a form of words to preserve their anonymity while meeting this obligation in our editorial code.
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
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
I feel like these messages are going to make for some confusing messaging
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.)
I hadn’t really noticed how much our diagram of $MELANIA ended up looking like Trump.
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
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.
I always feel like the northern catholic numbers are the most interesting, esp as this is before anyone campaigns on Our NHS
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
I mean, these are proper “demand worry” numbers, but… uh they’re in the other direction. www.theguardian.com/education/20...