Gus Carter

London

Deputy Features Editor at The Spectator

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

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Articles

A trio of tips for day three of Royal Ascot

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

At first glance, today’s Britannia Stakes handicap (5 p.m.) at Royal Ascot looks an impossible puzzle to solve. No less than 30 three-year-old runners are due to line up and plenty of them are plot horses that will go on to win off much higher official marks than they are running from today. However, my strong fancy for this race is PAROLE D’ORO to pull off a coup that has been some two years in the planning.
How deepfake fraud is rewiring our minds

3 weeks ago | thespectator.com | Gus Carter

We’re led to believe that America was once Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, a place of cardigans and kindness where everyone got along just swell. Then it all went wrong. MSNBC hosts talk of a “crisis in authority” while New York Times columnists blame corrupt Republicans for a “lost faith in liberal governance.” Right-leaning commentators point to mass migration as the great trust killer.
Why fishing matters

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

Not everything is about money. If it were, we’d be merrily sending our oldies off to assisted dying hubs to free up the social care budget. The fishing industry is one of those parts of public life that is about more than raw GDP. But Keir Starmer has handed over access to British waters for another full 12 years in return for what he deems more lucrative EU concessions.
Why fishing matters

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

Not everything is about money. If it were, we’d be merrily sending our oldies off to assisted dying hubs to free up the social care budget. The fishing industry is one of those parts of public life that is about more than raw GDP. But Keir Starmer has handed over access to British waters for another full 12 years in return for what he deems more lucrative EU concessions. It’s a mistake, because fishing is about more than cash. It’s about what it means for us to be a free and confident country.
Welcome to Scuzz Nation

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

Duolingo claims that it is ‘the world’s best way to learn a language’. The app – which has tens of millions of users – boasts a ‘science-backed approach’ that it says ‘delivers measurable results’. I’m not convinced: it seems to me that time wasted on Duolingo would be far better spent doing almost anything else.
Welcome to Scuzz Nation

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

Reform’s success in last week’s local elections has been attributed to many causes. Labour’s abolition of the winter fuel payment for pensioners. The hollowing out of the Conservative party’s campaigning base. Nigel Farage’s mastery of social media. But if you want an emblem of why voters turned their back on the political establishment let me give you Goat Man.
Maybe you’re not anxious. Maybe you’re just stressed

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

Something rather odd has happened to the way we talk about worry. The straightforward term ‘stress’ has been overtaken by the quasi-medical concept of ‘anxiety’. The problem is that the words mean don’t mean the same thing. Using them interchangeably can have unhappy consequences: just look at the recent reports that the majority of Britons now identify as neurodivergent. What greater evidence could there be of a creeping pathologisation of human experience?
Yes, men need saving

2 months ago | spectator.com.au | Gus Carter

A few weeks ago, when Adolescence first came out, I found myself reading some of the academic literature on incels. It turns out they are a risk – but only really to themselves. When interviewed, over half of incels said they had considered killing themselves in the previous two weeks, compared to 5 per cent of the population who had thought about it in the past year.
Yes, men need saving

2 months ago | spectator.co.uk | Gus Carter

A few weeks ago, when Adolescence first came out, I found myself reading some of the academic literature on incels. It turns out they are a risk – but only really to themselves. When interviewed, over half of incels said they had considered killing themselves in the previous two weeks, compared to 5 per cent of the population who had thought about it in the past year.
Pensioners, it’s your turn to cough up

Mar 18, 2025 | 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.