Gus Carter

London

Deputy Features Editor at The Spectator

Deputy features editor at @Spectator. Email: [email protected]

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Articles

Pensioners, it’s your turn to cough up

1 month ago | spectator.co.uk | Gus Carter

The welfare state is grotesquely unfair. There are people who receive thousands of pounds from the taxpayer with little government oversight, even when they have no genuine need for the cash. They spend it on things like cars, flat screen TVs and other luxury ephemera. And there is a sense of entitlement among these scroungers, a feeling that they are somehow owed the fruits of other people’s labour. These people are of course pensioners.
Pensioners, it’s your turn to cough up

1 month ago | spectator.com.au | Gus Carter

The welfare state is grotesquely unfair. There are people who receive thousands of pounds from the taxpayer with little government oversight, even when they have no genuine need for the cash. They spend it on things like cars, flat screen TVs and other luxury ephemera. And there is a sense of entitlement among these scroungers, a feeling that they are somehow owed the fruits of other people’s labour.
Meet the Zoomer Doomers: Britain’s secret right-wing movement

1 month ago | spectator.com.au | Gus Carter

One of the striking aspects of the AfD’s success in the German elections was the party’s popularity among the young, especially men under 25: one in four voted for the hard-right movement. Support for bracingly conservative positions among Gen-Z men isn’t just a German phenomenon, however. In Westminster and beyond, a new breed of young right-wing influencers is seeking to shift our politics.
Meet the Zoomer Doomers: Britain’s secret right-wing movement

1 month ago | spectator.co.uk | Gus Carter

One of the striking aspects of the AfD’s success in the German elections was the party’s popularity among the young, especially men under 25: one in four voted for the hard-right movement. Support for bracingly conservative positions among Gen-Z men isn’t just a German phenomenon, however. In Westminster and beyond, a new breed of young right-wing influencers is seeking to shift our politics. Meet the Zoomer Doomers.
What’s wrong with Spotify?

Jan 9, 2025 | spectator.co.uk | Gus Carter

Spotify is bad, apparently. The charges levied against the app are that it stifles artists by paying them a pittance and listeners with its all-pervasive algorithm.
Two more bets for Cheltenham’s November meeting

Nov 15, 2024 | spectator.co.uk | Gus Carter

Cheltenham’s three-day November meeting, starting today, will take place on much faster ground that normal and so anticipate plenty of non-runners if, as expected, there is very little rain over the weekend. This is usually a meeting at which soft-ground horses have their preferred conditions but that’s definitely not the case this time. The big race tomorrow is the Paddy Power Gold Cup (2.20 p.m.), a handicap chase over two miles four furlongs that has attracted a field of 15 runners.
Labour has a problem with the countryside

Nov 15, 2024 | inews.co.uk | Gus Carter

Family farming is “an industry we can do without”, according to Tony Blair’s former adviser, John McTernan, who told GB News this week that Labour should do to farms “what Thatcher did to coal mines”. Viewers were left imagining truncheons cracking through flat caps. The comments were not exactly welcomed in Labour HQ, with a source calling them “shockingly irresponsible nonsense”.
Could inheritance tax changes help farmers in the long run?

Nov 6, 2024 | spectator.com.au | Gus Carter

Britain’s farmers are in a bind. Despite sitting on land worth millions, they are unable to release that wealth without selling – and many struggle to make money from what they produce. According to Defra, almost one in five farms make a loss, while a quarter made less than £25,000 last year.
Could inheritance tax changes help farmers in the long run?

Nov 5, 2024 | spectator.co.uk | Gus Carter

Britain’s farmers are in a bind. Despite sitting on land worth millions, they are unable to release that wealth without selling – and many struggle to make money from what they produce. According to Defra, almost one in five farms make a loss, while a quarter made less than £25,000 last year. Yet there are parts of the Labour movement that see farmers as money-grubbing, tweed-clad elites benefiting from special tax breaks and hefty subsidies.
Leaving the ECHR won’t fix Britain’s immigration chaos

Oct 30, 2024 | spectator.com.au | Gus Carter

If you tuned into the Tory party leadership race, you will have heard rather a lot about the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Robert Jenrick wants Britain to leave because it stops us deporting foreign criminals. Kemi Badenoch argues that leaving won’t fix our immigration woes. She’s not wrong.