Peter Franklin

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

Why doesn’t geography get the respect it deserves?

25 Sep 2018

The absurdity of legalising drugs

24 Sep 2018

What’s the ideal environment for the abuse of power?

21 Sep 2018

What’s the point of the Lib Dems?

20 Sep 2018

Trumpism: America’s new religion

19 Sep 2018

Ten years after the crash, we should still be terrified

18 Sep 2018

Could Trump keep tweeting for ever?

17 Sep 2018

Are low-paid workers unskilled or just undervalued?

13 Sep 2018

Our ‘open’ society has shut the door on shared spaces

12 Sep 2018

Coercive federalism has doomed the EU

11 Sep 2018

Facial recognition systems will imprison us all

10 Sep 2018

In theory, you’re a racist

07 Sep 2018

The brutal apartheid of the French banlieues

06 Sep 2018

How sex and drugs took their toll on 21st-century America

05 Sep 2018

Would Frank Field fit in? The test we should apply to any new party

04 Sep 2018

How driverless cars could make streets safer

03 Sep 2018

If you’re pro-immigration you can’t be anti-development

31 Aug 2018

Does liberalism need global conflict in order to thrive?

30 Aug 2018

Why it’s time to panic about kids and smartphones

29 Aug 2018

The permanent punishment of the Greek people

28 Aug 2018

The West divided: Populism versus liberalism in the 21st century

24 Aug 2018

Why does the Left hate Tolkien?

21 Aug 2018

The next tech revolution – you won’t believe your eyes!

20 Aug 2018

How a land value tax could speed up the regeneration of our cities

17 Aug 2018

Who deserves the blame for ‘bargain basement’ Britain?

16 Aug 2018

How (some) economists finally caught up with financial reality

15 Aug 2018

How the robots of the underworld could turn your life upside down

14 Aug 2018

Do conservatives have a fundamental problem with diversity?

13 Aug 2018

In the age of Big Data, politicians should not believe their eyes

10 Aug 2018

America’s other drug epidemic

09 Aug 2018

Fascism, architecture and Donald Trump

08 Aug 2018

What’s the point of the humanities?

06 Aug 2018

How low-paying businesses profit from us all

06 Aug 2018

The deeper meaning of Open and Closed

03 Aug 2018

The rise and rise of Open and Closed

01 Aug 2018

Open vs Closed: The rise and fall of Left and Right

31 Jul 2018

The battle for Britain’s countryside – the other Brexit debate

30 Jul 2018

A disturbing post-script to the royal wedding

27 Jul 2018

Why air-conditioning is making us hotter

25 Jul 2018

China: the hype vs the reality

23 Jul 2018

How new technology could topple the tech giants

19 Jul 2018

One way to bypass a driverless future

18 Jul 2018

Boo! Why populists keep surprising liberals

17 Jul 2018

Full employment, decent pay and affordable housing: choose two

13 Jul 2018

Is there anyone else out there?

12 Jul 2018

Platform cooperativism – an alternative to technopoly

10 Jul 2018

The false promise of the vertical city

09 Jul 2018

How the liberals invented Donald Trump

06 Jul 2018

When communities take on the tech lords and win

05 Jul 2018

Would you trust a robot to build your house?

04 Jul 2018

Jordan Peterson for President (yes, I know)

03 Jul 2018

Are traffic lights really “un-Conservative”?

02 Jul 2018

What’s so monstrous about Ayn Rand?

27 Jun 2018

Why don’t we talk about television anymore?

25 Jun 2018

The great British cock-up: ten times the state got it catastrophically wrong

22 Jun 2018

An expensive house is no place for a child

21 Jun 2018

The French ‘internet’ – when state innovation goes wrong

20 Jun 2018

The Amish: America’s most sophisticated users of technology

19 Jun 2018

If you’re reading this on the train to work, go home!

18 Jun 2018

Do you have to be rich not to have a smartphone?

15 Jun 2018

June 23rd – an anniversary for George Osborne to celebrate!

14 Jun 2018

What the Amish and the Shakers can teach us about demographics

13 Jun 2018

Why much of genetic engineering remains a mystery

12 Jun 2018

Is Europe on the brink of a new Thirty Years’ War?

11 Jun 2018

How Thatcher’s heirs can revive popular capitalism

08 Jun 2018

The bureaucratic fracturing of government can destroy lives

07 Jun 2018

How to introduce a Land Value Tax tactfully

06 Jun 2018

Will China overtake America in a driverless car?

05 Jun 2018

What will ‘deep fake’ imagery do to politics?

04 Jun 2018

Are centrists a threat to democracy?

01 Jun 2018

What if we were to lose the last ten years of technological progress?

31 May 2018

Flyover France – the forgotten frontier

30 May 2018

‘Unconscious bias training’ doesn’t work

29 May 2018

Could the Chinese Communist Party win votes in the West?

26 May 2018

Chained to a lunatic: the shocking secret at the heart of politics

25 May 2018

Should the rich be allowed to destroy their own wealth?

23 May 2018

Free speech, blasphemy and structural discrimination

22 May 2018

The most influential religion you’ve never heard of

21 May 2018

The tragedy of the ‘gammons’

18 May 2018

Chinese capital flows – the ‘dragon energy’ of globalisation

17 May 2018

What’s the point of the Intellectual Dark Web?

17 May 2018

Why trade deals are murder

16 May 2018

Why rationing air travel is the same thing as taxing people out of the skies

15 May 2018

China is railroading its exports through Europe – literally

14 May 2018

Vanilla liberalism is past its sell-by date

11 May 2018

Alexa, how do we disrupt the tech lords?

10 May 2018

Is there anything that Jordan Peterson can’t disrupt?

09 May 2018

The worse our politicians get, the more we indulge them

08 May 2018

From Cultural Revolution to cultural appropriation: a brief history of that dress

04 May 2018

Should we be bowing to social media?

03 May 2018

We must stop tolerating terrible architecture

02 May 2018

Blue Labour versus the Accelerationists: Round Two

01 May 2018

The three-way relationship that brought about Brexit and Trump

30 Apr 2018

And finally: the good news from flyover county

27 Apr 2018

You wait ages for an electric bus, and then three hundred thousand turn up

26 Apr 2018

Whatever happened to the human clones?

25 Apr 2018

Why does a new middle-of-the-road party have to be a liberal one?

24 Apr 2018

Who’s that watching your every move? Don’t worry, it’s only everyone…

23 Apr 2018

More community land trusts could transform the housing debate

20 Apr 2018

Have our scientists run out of steam?

19 Apr 2018