@GusCarter

Deputy editor US at The Spectator.

 London
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Joined February 2009
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Freddy Gray
@Freddygray31Oct 21
Amazing Science Reality nugget from Andrew Cockburn in The Spectator yesterday. Kevin Warsh, Chair of the Fed, uses generative AI to recreate his favourite dead economists and apparently spends large parts of the day speaking to the bots about policy ...
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A selection of @TheSpectator specimens I’m sharing with students in the class I’m teaching at @Hillsdale. One student astutely remarked that the British press seems even more “American” than the American press, based on how Tocqueville characterizes American vs. French papers.
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The October 12 edition of The Spectator has gone to press, featuring: ⭐️@andrewmcockburn ⭐️@default_friend ⭐️@mattwridley ⭐️@geoffrey_cain ⭐️@mk_skehan ⭐️@margekmitchell ⭐️Christopher Caldwell
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This is what the Chinese built for the same price and over the same period
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Cars and buses go from Oxford Station down Botley Road for the first time in three years! The project took longer than the construction of The Titanic and saw costs balloon to £237m. Looks good though.
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Libertarians have disappeared from American politics. Their think tanks and magazines are richly endowed but irrelevant, their ideas exhausted. What happened to champions of free markets and free people? ✍️ @ToryAnarchist Article | spectator.com/article/the-st…
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The legendary Citroen CX Safari, utilized by the BBC for filming horse racing due to its exceptional hydropneumatic suspension that ensured the car's stability – at Bologna, Emilia Romagna
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James Heale
@JAHealeSep 10
Colleagues @TheSpectator in America have been knocking it out of the box recently 🇺🇸
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Kushner bought the land for $120 million from a suspected Albanian drug trafficker, Artur Shehu, who fled to Miami after a gunfight in his uncle’s bar. It is alleged that Shehu used fraudulent Ottoman-era land records to claim great swaths of coastal property for himself, though Shehu’s lawyer has insisted that he is neither a drug dealer nor a land thief. ✍️ Ian Thomson Article | spectator.com/article/inside…
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Freddy Gray
@Freddygray31Sep 9
There are a few tickets left to our first NYC event on Nixon, starring Conrad Black, @ToryAnarchist and Geoff Shepherd … Book now to avoid disappointment… luma.com/nixonrevival

The Nixon Revival: why he matters again · Luma

Our panel: The Spectator's US editor Freddy Gray will be joined by Geoff Shepard, Conrad Black and Daniel McCarthy. Known to many as “Tricky Dick,” Richard…

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In what has become known as the Flamingo Revolution, thousands of Albanians took to the streets in Tirana earlier this year to condemn Kushner’s property ambitions and the Albanian politicians who stand to gain from them. The protests are expected to gather momentum this fall as Albanians renew calls for their Socialist party Prime Minister Edi Rama to resign. Not since communism was dissolved has Albania been shaken by such collective outrage. The Flamingo Revolution is now in its 15th week. In my guesthouse in Nartë, on the edge of the disputed peninsula, I was served milk curds and maize bread for breakfast. An abandoned indoor market and Hoxha-era cinema added to the town’s air of dereliction. The inhabitants are mostly ethnic Greek Albanian. They are not against tourism but object to the secrecy and disinformation that surrounds the Kushner development. “VIP tourism of Kushner’s sort will only destroy our way of life,” said Esmeralda Berberi, who runs a corner store. “The Americans are not welcome.” At night in the guesthouse I was awoken by the howling of jackals. ✍️ Ian Thomson Article: spectator.com/article/inside…
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Helen Andrews
@herandrewsAug 23
“Third Worldhood spreads its tentacles everywhere. Now it has come back home—back, I mean, to the First World where it was invented.” Shiva Naipaul wrote this in 1985, and the Spectator has kindly republished it: spectator.com/article/myth-t…

The myth of the Third World

The Third World, and Third-Worldism in particular, has been much discussed lately. Shiva Naipaul demolished the concept 40 years ago

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More than 7,000 Americans died in the wars that followed 9/11. One was from my hometown. If we want to understand the 9/11 era -- and the choices America made -- that collective loss is a big part. nytimes.com/2026/08/31/us/po…

This Marine Died in the Iraq War. His Mother Asks, ‘What Was It For?’

Travis Fuller was from my hometown. I went back and talked with his family about how they made sense of his death, 25 years after Sept. 11.

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The Spectator’s September 14 issue has gone to press, featuring: 🇦🇱 Ian Thomson 🇦🇱 @Nero 🇦🇱 @alexbronzini 🇦🇱 @rogerkimball 🇦🇱 @credenzaclear2 🇦🇱 @AnnCoulter 🇦🇱 @default_friend 🇦🇱 @d_whitehouse
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Helen Andrews
@herandrewsAug 25
Delighted to have this week’s @TheSpectator Diary, about raising Australian children and the culture clash of parenting three Vegemite-Americans. spectator.com/article/lost-1…

Have I lost 10 IQ points for every child I’ve had?

I sometimes feel like I have lost ten IQ points per child. If my husband and I ever have a fourth, I might have to quit writing altogether and find a less cognitively demanding line of work – maybe...

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The August 31 edition of The Spectator has gone to press, featuring: 🚀 @drdwhitehouse 🚀 @ianwill 🚀 @HMDatMI 🚀 @herandrews 🚀 @default_friend 🚀 @MaxJeffery_ 🚀 @ClarkeMicah 🚀 @DouglasKMurray And many more... Subscribe: spectator.com/subscribe-toda…
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The Spectator
@spectatorAug 20
'Amazingly refreshing' - Rory Sutherland

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The Spectator
@spectatorAug 17
Americans love their killers. Still, Luigi Mangione, who shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson dead in December 2024, may be the most beloved of them all. It took a special sort of fetishist to see something in maniacs like Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer, who killed for no reason other than their sadistic compulsions. Mangione, though? Nearly every American has been ground down by our country's healthcare system. ✍️ Alex Bronzini-Vender Article | spectator.com/article/the-en…
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Can't wait for this
🤖 Made with AI
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The August 17 edition of The Spectator has gone to press, featuring: 💣 @TomSwitzerMedia 💣 @michaelbd 💣 @ariehkovler 💣 @default_friend 💣 @BorisJohnson 💣 @KemiBadenoch 💣 @DouglasKMurray 💣 Rod Liddle Subscribe: spectator.com/subscribe-toda…
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