Gus Carter
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The Boring Twenties: Gus Carter and Rupert Hawksley on the cost-of-living-it-up crisis 🔸 Ed West: Keep children out of politics 🔸 Rod Liddle: David Walliams deserves to be cancelled 🔸 Douglas Murray: Alaa Abd el-Fattah and our misplaced priorities 🔸 Lucy Dunn: Make mine a
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Very happy to be sharing my first @spectator cover with @GusCarter. Wishing you all a very boring 2026 🎉🎉
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Delighted to welcome the @Spectator's latest contributor for our bumper Christmas edition, out tomorrow... Her Majesty the Queen đź‘‘ Congrats to @michaelgove and the amazing editorial team. What a mind-blowing collection of names. No other publication in the world comes close.
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This piece on the Browns restaurant chain by @GusCarter really made me chuckle. This description brought back some memories https://t.co/RRt1anPdDu
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It might be a well-worn point, writes @defossardf, but the camaraderie of a restaurant kitchen is life-affirming. Perhaps more politicos should give it a try https://t.co/uhn8rxUyw3
thecritic.co.uk
My godmother — a native of Oxford and Witney — told me soon after the restaurant opened that it wouldn’t last long.
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“The whole construction of secular history is, at some level, an illusion.” Nick Land, the “father of accelerationism”, spoke to Monica Sobchak for the latest edition of @TheSpectator. @Mochak123 | @xenocosmography
https://t.co/AmeVFAoMNQ
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As is often the case the great @ShippersUnbound and I are fishing in same pond He reveals in The Spectator that Chinese interests purchased the data hub used by Whitehall departments to exchange information - including on highly classified projects A source tells him that the
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How Bedfordshire police is using artificial intelligence so police can spend more time hunting criminals ✍️ Gus Carter https://t.co/sAdvet97YI
spectator.com
Bedfordshire Police is using AI to cut paperwork and put officers back on the streets. Can they become a model for UK policing?
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In 2023, 80% of police time in Bedfordshire was spent on paperwork. Their chief constable is trying to change that.
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We have just sent our first fortnightly edition of The Spectator for the US market. And it's a gem. The cover piece, by @bdomenech, is on the military conflict that MAGA wants. It could not be more timely:
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Two and a half years after my dad’s death and 900 miles from Gloucestershire, I was handed a bag containing what are surely the finest shoes in all of Italy. ✍️ Gus Carter https://t.co/rY4xTSIfPR
spectator.com
From Cirencester’s Pakeman Catto & Carter to Florence’s Mannina: the story of a father, a shoemaker, and a lasting legacy.
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I have to say - this is a very, very good essay on the short-termist, asset-stripping machine which eats away at our prosperity. Well done @GusCarter đź‘Źđź‘Źđź‘Ź How private equity ruined Britain
spectator.com
What has happened to Britain’s rivers isn’t a mistake. The fact that serious pollution is up 60 per cent on the year, or that only one in seven rivers can be called ecologically healthy, is the...
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“We’ve invited in a whole class of savvy corporate raiders who know how to loot UK Plc – and get away with it.” Powerful indictment from @guscarter: https://t.co/SpPVL3Ep3n
spectator.com
What has happened to Britain’s rivers isn’t a mistake. The fact that serious pollution is up 60 per cent on the year, or that only one in seven rivers can be called ecologically healthy, is the...
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🗞️ Soul suckers: Gus Carter on how private equity ruined Britain ✍️ Also in the mag: 🔸 Tim Shipman: Can anything stop Reform? 🔸 Rod Liddle: Raise the voting age to 25 🔸 Bruno Retailleau: Islamists vs France https://t.co/iEQKq9cSUN
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🗞️ Porn Britannia: Louise Perry and Michael Simmons on the UK’s only growth industry ✍️ In the magazine: 🔸 James Heale: Rachel Reeves, the Iron Chancer 🔸 Sean Thomas: A lament for lads’ mags 🔸 Douglas Murray: How to ruin a city https://t.co/iEQKq9cSUN
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Brilliant discussion with @GusCarter focused on his excellent cover piece in the @spectator
🎙️ The Edition: Welcome to Scuzz Nation This week: 🔸 @GusCarter and @pursuitofprog on Britain’s slow and grubby decline 🔸 @PhilipHensher and Orlando Reade: is it demeaning to study Dickens? 🔸 Christa D’Souza and Mary Killen: are you a bad house guest? https://t.co/61LgpH1hZe
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From the must-read @spectator cover story by the brilliant @GusCarter
A friend lives in a flat in the zone 1/zone 2 border. The Georgian house next door is used by the council to house 'vulnerable' young men who've had to be moved from other parts of London because they're at risk of gang violence.
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