Peter Franklin

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

Don’t believe what those idiots are telling you about echo chambers

18 Apr 2018

Brexit Britain must take back control of its countryside

17 Apr 2018

To close the gender pay-gap we need a family-friendly work culture

16 Apr 2018

How online retailers are incentivised to wreck our roads

13 Apr 2018

U OK Hun(gary)?

12 Apr 2018

Washington DC vs Silicon Valley: America’s Athens and Sparta

11 Apr 2018

The east is well-read: Chinese scholars know more about us than we do about them

10 Apr 2018

A cashless society could curb criminals – but also our freedom

09 Apr 2018

“Sneckdowns” and desire lines: A parable for the big data age

06 Apr 2018

Russia and China get cosy over energy supplies

05 Apr 2018

Will big tech bankrupt the banks?

04 Apr 2018

The cost of property may slowly kill Silicon Valley – but a Land Value Tax might give it new life

03 Apr 2018

In the race to become the AI superpower, Europe is losing to China and America

29 Mar 2018

Radical leftwingers must recognise ‘legitimate concerns’ or they’ll cause widespread destruction

28 Mar 2018

New evidence on race and inequality in America

27 Mar 2018

Decarbonising the economy: now for the hard bit

26 Mar 2018

Who wants to buy the products of ‘Beijing Analytica’? Many of us (probably).

23 Mar 2018

TV can’t ignore flyover country – but nor can it look it in the eye

22 Mar 2018

Don’t monkey around with the borders of humanity

21 Mar 2018

Singapore shows there’s more than one way of doing capitalism

21 Mar 2018

Why we need a moratorium on manned spaceflight

20 Mar 2018

You’ll never guess which is the most densely populated country in Europe

19 Mar 2018

Communist China’s class-ridden society

16 Mar 2018

The post-work society is already here

15 Mar 2018

Italy versus the EU establishment: now who’s being irresponsible?

14 Mar 2018

Self-driving cars are a chance to rehumanise our streets

13 Mar 2018

Why ‘enough’ is the most dangerous word in economics

12 Mar 2018

Advanced economies shouldn’t depend on cheap labour

09 Mar 2018

Pinkerism, populism and progressophobia

08 Mar 2018

Thirty-somethings need home ownership options – and fast

07 Mar 2018

How Dr Internet got smarter than the real thing

06 Mar 2018

The threat of ‘fake news’ isn’t fake, but nor is it new

05 Mar 2018

How the Left destroyed its voter base

02 Mar 2018

Screen addiction has killed the bookworm

01 Mar 2018

Accelerationism, Blue Labour and the future of work

28 Feb 2018

Proof that a global city can build enough new housing

27 Feb 2018

The idea that liberals aren’t represented by the party system is the opposite of the truth

26 Feb 2018

Free minds: Jane Jacobs, a fearless foe of all things prefabricated

25 Feb 2018

How small bureaucratic hurdles can be big barriers for the poor

23 Feb 2018

British universities should disrupt the US model of gated access to higher education

22 Feb 2018

The ideological battle over classroom seating arrangements

21 Feb 2018

Trump, truckers and the automation paradox: robots could lead to labour shortages

20 Feb 2018

Why are politicians ignoring what housing markets are telling them?

19 Feb 2018

The innovation game: Can China regain its lead over the West?

16 Feb 2018

Loss of community places a heavy burden on young families

14 Feb 2018

Is Amazon’s attempt to disrupt the healthcare industry heroic or villainous?

13 Feb 2018

How common is ‘digital self-harm’ and what explains it?

13 Feb 2018

Driverless cars are on a collision course with the property market

12 Feb 2018

Is America a failed state? Or is liberalism a failed ideology?

09 Feb 2018

Never mind UBI (Universal Basic Income), what we need is UBV (Universal Basic Vegetables)

08 Feb 2018

What government can do about the winner-takes-all economy

07 Feb 2018

New gene editing techniques could multiply the dangers of GMOs

06 Feb 2018

Why wealth taxes are a political graveyard

06 Feb 2018

Great Britain: Not in fact an island of greedy, selfish xenophobes

05 Feb 2018

One industry where capitalism is going in the right direction

02 Feb 2018

Geoengineering: another fine mess not to get into

01 Feb 2018

Europe no longer exists – our future is Eurasian

31 Jan 2018

What does the ‘charging elephant’ – also known as Amazon – want? Only everything (and beware of getting in its way)

30 Jan 2018

Why religion is more important in China than in the West

29 Jan 2018

The digital revolution: a disaster for progressives and conservatives alike

26 Jan 2018

Rogue landlords are a poor solution to the housing crisis

25 Jan 2018

Don’t sweat the small stuff, or why the ‘New Optimists’ are only half right

24 Jan 2018

Why do some countries have strong populist movements but not others?

23 Jan 2018

Only lateral thinking can save us from economic stagnation

22 Jan 2018

What the story of early capitalism can teach us about ‘late capitalism’

19 Jan 2018

If governments do raise taxes on wealth, what should be done with the revenues?

18 Jan 2018

Trees or farmland? ‘Agroforestry’ could mean nations like Britain would not have to choose

17 Jan 2018

The debate over immigration ignores half the issue

16 Jan 2018

How Brexit Britain could help China build a new world

15 Jan 2018

Is there really someone for everyone? Not if we undermine monogamy and a balanced gender ratio

12 Jan 2018

Higher education should be making a bigger difference

11 Jan 2018

It’s official, we really are dumbing down

10 Jan 2018

We need a richer conversation about wealth inequality

09 Jan 2018

Brexit isn’t Europe’s biggest challenge, but economic inequality between east and west

08 Jan 2018

If you want people to make more babies, build more houses

22 Dec 2017

If we want a more productive economy, we must let our cities grow

21 Dec 2017

Why Sunday closing reveals the deepest divide in politics

20 Dec 2017

How to save your career from the march of the robots

19 Dec 2017

Environmentally-friendly farming doesn’t have to be technologically backward

18 Dec 2017

Pro-Trump intellectuals – yes, they do exist

15 Dec 2017

Does capitalism have an answer to ‘fully automated luxury communism’?

14 Dec 2017

What you need to learn about machine learning

13 Dec 2017

Marriage is a uniquely stabilising force: are liberals finally getting the message?

12 Dec 2017

Jeremy Corbyn is right: a ‘post-neoliberal world order’ is coming (whatever that means)

11 Dec 2017

China’s taking a quantum leap in its tech rivalry with the West

08 Dec 2017

Return of the genetically modified rats

07 Dec 2017

Around the world, our precariously-balanced household finances need salvation

06 Dec 2017

Are ‘cyberslackers’ destroying the economy?

05 Dec 2017

Will Elon Musk drive a truck through the oil industry?

04 Dec 2017

Meghan Markle (so I get your attention!)… and Sufi Islam and the dangers of religious illiteracy

01 Dec 2017

To boost productivity, just do what Henry VIII did

30 Nov 2017

The news IS covering Trump’s circus. It’s not covering his administration particularly well.

29 Nov 2017

Why making poor people richer can push up the poverty rate

28 Nov 2017

A plan to rid New Zealand of rats and other predatory mammals would spread across the world…

27 Nov 2017

The argument that robots won’t take our jobs isn’t all that reassuring

24 Nov 2017

Wanted: a government willing to perform experiments on us

23 Nov 2017

Putin has new friends in the West. But what have his interventions cost him?

22 Nov 2017

We’ve been underestimating the genetic differences between men and women

21 Nov 2017

Fighting behind closed doors is stifling your kids’ creativity

20 Nov 2017

The full effects of automation will be way more disruptive than globalisation

17 Nov 2017