Peter Franklin

Peter Franklin is Associate Editor of UnHerd. He was previously a policy advisor and speechwriter on environmental and social issues.

The dead centre of political punditry

20 Feb 2019

What has ‘flyover country’ got to complain about?

19 Feb 2019

The truth about inflation

18 Feb 2019

Will the NHS hold our DNA hostage?

15 Feb 2019

Why high-rise farms could save the world

14 Feb 2019

Do you know where money really comes from?

13 Feb 2019

You are the next tech revolution

12 Feb 2019

How to solve the housing crisis

11 Feb 2019

Wake up people! The sheep were right

08 Feb 2019

The consequences of cosy AI collusion

07 Feb 2019

The irrelevant debate over the top rate of tax

06 Feb 2019

Is it all over for the big tech companies?

05 Feb 2019

What cost your free lunch?

04 Feb 2019

Not a population bomb, more a damp squib

01 Feb 2019

The bitter truth about Millennial burnout

31 Jan 2019

What makes languages legitimate?

30 Jan 2019

Could your neighbour be spying on you?

29 Jan 2019

Capitalism: where did it all go wrong?

28 Jan 2019

Who would you trust with your bio-data?

25 Jan 2019

Why intensive parenting causes inequality

24 Jan 2019

This demographic catastrophe will hit us all

23 Jan 2019

Why ‘peak death’ won’t solve the housing crisis

22 Jan 2019

No, computers haven’t learned how to cheat

21 Jan 2019

A path towards Tory detoxification

18 Jan 2019

Let’s replace the Lords with a House of Lobbyists

17 Jan 2019

What’s bugging the Millennials?

15 Jan 2019

A Christian society should be post-liberal not anti-liberal

14 Jan 2019

How to stop the mis-selling of education

11 Jan 2019

Is Spain’s day in the sun dawning?

10 Jan 2019

The world’s most successful* people get enough sleep

09 Jan 2019

How China ditched the banks

08 Jan 2019

So you want to write an opinion piece

07 Jan 2019

Why I’m a man for more seasons

03 Jan 2019

The Year UnPacked

02 Jan 2019

The Year UnPacked: 10 to 1

28 Dec 2018

The Year UnPacked: 20 to 11

27 Dec 2018

Ten vested interests the Tories failed to tackle

27 Dec 2018

The Year UnPacked: 30 to 21

26 Dec 2018

The Year UnPacked: 40 to 31

25 Dec 2018

The Year UnPacked: 50 to 41

24 Dec 2018

Why Antifragile is the perfect read for today’s turmoil

20 Dec 2018

The jaw-dropping scale of China’s global ambition

19 Dec 2018

When eggheads are bigger idiots than meatheads

18 Dec 2018

The most dangerous thing about meritocracy

17 Dec 2018

How the smartphone economy ate itself

14 Dec 2018

How capitalism is killing-off the next generation of consumers

13 Dec 2018

Green taxes don’t have to hurt the yellow jackets

12 Dec 2018

Is ADHD being falsely diagnosed?

11 Dec 2018

How political correctness corrupts the Right

10 Dec 2018

How gamification makes losers of us all

07 Dec 2018

How Populist is the Wizard of Oz?

06 Dec 2018

German irresponsibility threatens Europe

05 Dec 2018

How we’re setting a generation up to fail

04 Dec 2018

The revenge of the Segway

03 Dec 2018

Can China control its Protestants?

30 Nov 2018

Why we need a writer to run the country

29 Nov 2018

Who will save us from the vampire capitalists?

28 Nov 2018

Why we need to concentrate on science

27 Nov 2018

Who’s to blame for the ‘boomerang’ generation?

26 Nov 2018

Two wheels good; four wheels bad

23 Nov 2018

China: not just an economic superpower

22 Nov 2018

The ugly truth behind Amazon’s beauty contest

21 Nov 2018

The surprising losers of the Great Recession

20 Nov 2018

Prepare to be microchipped

19 Nov 2018

The truth about GDP figures

16 Nov 2018

Could Generation X save the world?

15 Nov 2018

How irresponsible Merkel let populism thrive

13 Nov 2018

Should you police your inner ideologue?

12 Nov 2018

Global English is a force for division – not unity

09 Nov 2018

Who are the the cyber-nannies coming for?

08 Nov 2018

The forgotten tragedies of the First World War

07 Nov 2018

Could Britain be about to power share with Belgium?

06 Nov 2018

Why non-voters matter most

05 Nov 2018

Big Tech’s big power grab

02 Nov 2018

One dead animal is an online sensation, a million is a statistic

01 Nov 2018

How the Eurozone could avert disaster

31 Oct 2018

Don’t let government drug the water supply

30 Oct 2018

Boomer populism is a warning from the future

29 Oct 2018

The mystery of the disappearing pay rise

26 Oct 2018

Britain needs less speculation, not a smaller financial sector

25 Oct 2018

Five reasons why populism isn’t up to the job

24 Oct 2018

The dark side of China’s Social Credit System

22 Oct 2018

Elizabeth Warren should have checked her privilege

19 Oct 2018

Lies, damned lies and energy statistics

18 Oct 2018

Why we must suppress technological progress

17 Oct 2018

Why are we playing games with our privacy?

16 Oct 2018

Why are woke liberals such enemies of the past?

15 Oct 2018

What the Right gets wrong when the Left goes nuts

12 Oct 2018

America: the birth of two nations

11 Oct 2018

Who’s changing the political rules?

10 Oct 2018

Letting the gene genie out of the bottle

09 Oct 2018

Who’ll have the guts to ban cars from our cities?

08 Oct 2018

How robots could set the developing world free

05 Oct 2018

Ten vested interests the Tories failed to tackle

04 Oct 2018

Blazing Arizona: why adapting to climate change is deeply immoral

03 Oct 2018

What do Sheffield and Paris have in common?

02 Oct 2018

Why home ownership is the real key to progress

01 Oct 2018

Should we commit mosquito genocide?

28 Sep 2018

Beware keep fit totalitarianism

27 Sep 2018

Will the Chinese economy go the way of the USSR’s?

26 Sep 2018