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.
BBC News - England 33-19 New Zealand: How Twickenham learned to love the bomb - BBC Sport
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-...
I was amazingly privileged to be at Twickers yesterday. It's the first time I've seen an All Black team in the flesh. Thrilled that we were just to good for them.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-...
I was amazingly privileged to be at Twickers yesterday. It's the first time I've seen an All Black team in the flesh. Thrilled that we were just to good for them.
England 33-19 New Zealand: How Twickenham learned to love the bomb
England's win against New Zealand was the high point of a Steve Borthwick reign that has slowly won over Twickenham.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 6:47 AM
BBC News - England 33-19 New Zealand: How Twickenham learned to love the bomb - BBC Sport
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-...
I was amazingly privileged to be at Twickers yesterday. It's the first time I've seen an All Black team in the flesh. Thrilled that we were just to good for them.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-...
I was amazingly privileged to be at Twickers yesterday. It's the first time I've seen an All Black team in the flesh. Thrilled that we were just to good for them.
BBC News - Refugees to face 20-year wait to settle permanently under asylum reforms
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Bloody hate this.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Bloody hate this.
Refugees to face 20-year wait to settle permanently under asylum reforms
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is expected to announce major reforms to the asylum system on Monday.
www.bbc.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:31 AM
BBC News - Refugees to face 20-year wait to settle permanently under asylum reforms
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Bloody hate this.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Bloody hate this.
It's impossible to have any sympathy, she is a ghoul. Just enjoy the falling out.
No one should have to face such threats.
It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
November 15, 2025 at 10:26 PM
It's impossible to have any sympathy, she is a ghoul. Just enjoy the falling out.
Will he really pummel Venezuela to avoid the files? Jeez they must be terrible. At least Putin will no longer have control of him once the files are out.
A quarter of the entire deployed US Navy is now stationed in the Caribbean.
That goes way beyond frighteners.
That goes way beyond frighteners.
November 15, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Will he really pummel Venezuela to avoid the files? Jeez they must be terrible. At least Putin will no longer have control of him once the files are out.
I hope Spain chucks them out.
It's real, and it's mind-blowing.
A complete lack of awareness and a national embarrassment.
A complete lack of awareness and a national embarrassment.
Just some British patriots in Benidorm, taking over a street in Spain to shout in their own language about unwanted foreigners. It’s a blessing that they are too thick to understand irony.
November 15, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I hope Spain chucks them out.
Do we really need AI?
November 15, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Do we really need AI?
Awful.
English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books.
Social spaces lost forever. Libraries, community centres, school playgrounds, parks closed/sold as council funding cut in real terms to appease the rich.
Social vandalism.
Social spaces lost forever. Libraries, community centres, school playgrounds, parks closed/sold as council funding cut in real terms to appease the rich.
Social vandalism.
English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books
Survey finds 60% of key cities councils are planning to sell assets to meet costs of adult and children’s social care
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Awful.
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Trump is opening an "investigation" because that precludes DOJ from being allowed to release the files.
November 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Enjoyed a lovely, if wet, guided walk around Chelsea this morning. Sloane Square to the world's end.
November 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Enjoyed a lovely, if wet, guided walk around Chelsea this morning. Sloane Square to the world's end.
This is why they are busy defending education. Keep the masses ignorant and keep milking them.
The more you know ...
Fox: If you have high school or less as your education, 59% voted for Donald Trump. But it seems the more educated you are, the more you go over to the Democratic column.
November 14, 2025 at 7:37 AM
This is why they are busy defending education. Keep the masses ignorant and keep milking them.
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A bronze statue depicting Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein holding hands and skipping has resurfaced in Washington, D.C., outside a cafe about two miles from the White House.
Just a reminder: Ask about the Epstein list. Every. Single. Day. ‼️
#BlueCrew #ProudBlue #Resist #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
Just a reminder: Ask about the Epstein list. Every. Single. Day. ‼️
#BlueCrew #ProudBlue #Resist #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 AM
A bronze statue depicting Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein holding hands and skipping has resurfaced in Washington, D.C., outside a cafe about two miles from the White House.
Just a reminder: Ask about the Epstein list. Every. Single. Day. ‼️
#BlueCrew #ProudBlue #Resist #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
Just a reminder: Ask about the Epstein list. Every. Single. Day. ‼️
#BlueCrew #ProudBlue #Resist #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
Out for dinner in Islington tonight with very old friends. There is nothing quite like it to remind you who you really are. Can highly recommend Fredericks in Camden Passage. It never disappoints.
November 13, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Out for dinner in Islington tonight with very old friends. There is nothing quite like it to remind you who you really are. Can highly recommend Fredericks in Camden Passage. It never disappoints.
Truss is the most pathetic creature the UK has produced in some time. A lib dem who got the power lust.
This may well be the most pathetic and saddest thing I've seen since Arthur 2: On the Rocks.
November 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Truss is the most pathetic creature the UK has produced in some time. A lib dem who got the power lust.
Imagine a Hungary dropping Putin and coming back to the bosom of the EU. What a blow to Putin that would be. That's why Donny is working so hard to save him.
November 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Imagine a Hungary dropping Putin and coming back to the bosom of the EU. What a blow to Putin that would be. That's why Donny is working so hard to save him.
Every criminal knows there is a fee to the Don if they want their freedom back.
November 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Every criminal knows there is a fee to the Don if they want their freedom back.
Vance is quietly plotting, expecting his time has almost come. Trump has been a useful idiot, but now Thiel doggy is hoping to better himself. Thiel is all over the Epstein files, hopefully he gets knocked down too.
November 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Vance is quietly plotting, expecting his time has almost come. Trump has been a useful idiot, but now Thiel doggy is hoping to better himself. Thiel is all over the Epstein files, hopefully he gets knocked down too.
Anybody buying this cut sock is insane. Apple is way way overpriced in every department.
The release of the pocket, designed by Issey Miyake and ‘inspired by the concept of a piece of cloth’ left some baffled as to its purpose and hefty price tag ⬇️
Apple unveil £220 iPhone Pocket resembling ‘insanely expensive sock’
The release of the pocket, designed by Issey Miyake and ‘inspired by the concept of a piece of cloth’ left some baffled as to its purpose and hefty price tag
www.thetimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Anybody buying this cut sock is insane. Apple is way way overpriced in every department.
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Said one seasoned oval-ball expert, “It was amazing to see Joe Marler’s brain working better than anybody else’s in Celebrity Traitors.”
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
November 13, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Said one seasoned oval-ball expert, “It was amazing to see Joe Marler’s brain working better than anybody else’s in Celebrity Traitors.”
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Whatever you do, don’t show him this text from Assange to Don Jr in 2016.
November 13, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Whatever you do, don’t show him this text from Assange to Don Jr in 2016.
Putin must be shitting himself. Pretty soon his kompromat will be worthless. Vance must be frothing at the bit. Hopefully his sponsor Thiel will also go down with the ship.
November 12, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Putin must be shitting himself. Pretty soon his kompromat will be worthless. Vance must be frothing at the bit. Hopefully his sponsor Thiel will also go down with the ship.
Thiel is in 40 of the email dump.
November 12, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Thiel is in 40 of the email dump.
This is fascinating.
The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.
November 12, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This is fascinating.
Deflection
Stakes rise as Trump deploys world’s largest aircraft carrier to the Caribbean
Stakes rise as Trump deploys world’s largest aircraft carrier to the Caribbean
Expert says military action may be ‘imminent’ in Venezuela, while others suspect deployment is a negotiating tactic
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Deflection
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social that hospice piece was brilliant, so moving. Great programme tonight, well done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:04 PM
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social that hospice piece was brilliant, so moving. Great programme tonight, well done.