Peter Franklin

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

Why religion retains its relevance – even when belief in God wanes

16 Nov 2017

Will driverless cars save our cities, or ruin them?

15 Nov 2017

Granting planning permission is better for the economy than printing money

14 Nov 2017

Why the price of oil has been so hard to predict – and why that might change

13 Nov 2017

‘Alexa, are you turning my kid into a brat?’

13 Nov 2017

The unhappy homes that helped put Trump in the White House

10 Nov 2017

China’s sinister Social Credit System

09 Nov 2017

Robots are coming for our low-skilled jobs. They’re coming even quicker for our skilled jobs.

08 Nov 2017

School vouchers were supposed to revolutionise educational choice. So did they?

07 Nov 2017

Click here for details on a free trip across America!

06 Nov 2017

Enough said: How social media is turning young people off free speech

03 Nov 2017

Building a wall in the sky might help climate change. It might also create new problems

02 Nov 2017

Loosening the Metropolitan Green Belt would make Britain fat

01 Nov 2017

We’re going to ban human-operated cars. Yes, all of them.

31 Oct 2017

Project Loon is the upside of Google’s increasingly global reach

30 Oct 2017

It’s not simply low income that ends marriages. It’s economic instability.

27 Oct 2017

Why more people die as the economy grows

26 Oct 2017

How to eat from the magic money tree (which happens to have the same initials as ‘modern monetary theory’)

25 Oct 2017

The new political correctness: not a fad, but a deep cultural shift

24 Oct 2017

Help the world’s poorest people by giving them secure rights to their land

23 Oct 2017

Many in the tech industry are avoiding their products. Should we do the same?

20 Oct 2017

The opioid death toll: a real American horror story

19 Oct 2017

In the future we won’t have to work and the state will give us money… it’ll be awful

18 Oct 2017

Tech companies need their own tax regime – but not one of their choosing

17 Oct 2017

Yimby-ism could transform the landscape(s)

16 Oct 2017

No need to buy. Once cars are fully automated, they’ll all be taxis anyway

13 Oct 2017

Will we die from being kinless?

12 Oct 2017

It won’t be computers that kill us. It’ll be the software

11 Oct 2017

Westminster’s broken: To rescue our British parliament, establish an English parliament

10 Oct 2017

The enemies of renewable energy have lost – they should be delighted

09 Oct 2017

It’s not just Catalonia: Who has the right to break away?

06 Oct 2017

Was it whiteness that won it for Trump?

05 Oct 2017

Forget politics: To save conservative values, fund universities instead

04 Oct 2017

Taxing robots: a 20th century solution to a 21st century problem

03 Oct 2017

Kiss your privacy goodbye – CCTV is just the beginning

02 Oct 2017

The power of political storytelling: A response to George Monbiot (part two)

29 Sep 2017

The power of political storytelling: A response to George Monbiot (part one)

28 Sep 2017

Watch out, tech companies – your free pass is about to expire!

27 Sep 2017

We won’t fix capitalism until economists fix their broken theories

25 Sep 2017

The new world order: safe for markets, but not democracy

22 Sep 2017

Easy money: How have the central bankers got away with it?

21 Sep 2017

The human staplers of Silicon Valley

20 Sep 2017

Epidemics of addiction may be created by deliberate supply not uncontrollable demand

19 Sep 2017

How cheap labour undermines economic productivity

18 Sep 2017

Rampant Germanophilia merits closer examination

15 Sep 2017

The political centre is not where liberals think it is

14 Sep 2017

Could genetically selective societies breed themselves into crippling uniformity?

13 Sep 2017

You don’t have to be old and uneducated to be an extremist

12 Sep 2017

Facebook, Jesus and the serpent of social media

11 Sep 2017

Silicon Valley goes hypersocialist (as long as they don’t have to pay for it)

08 Sep 2017

There’s no need to fear a robot taking your job – not if you become one yourself

07 Sep 2017

How to create a drug epidemic

06 Sep 2017

How the radical left has it both ways on Brexit

05 Sep 2017

Massively dangerous technologies that could destroy us all: How about no?

04 Sep 2017

Is America facing its ‘Suez moment’?

01 Sep 2017

How smartphones make our young people unhappy

31 Aug 2017

The hermit generation: The young aren’t rebelling against society, but hiding from it

30 Aug 2017

How groupthink distorts economic policy and puts downward pressure on wages

25 Aug 2017

The unpalatable truth about socialised medicine

24 Aug 2017

Economists are clueless about the demographic disaster awaiting the global economy

22 Aug 2017

To get Britain moving again we must get Britain moving house

21 Aug 2017

Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your food!

18 Aug 2017

Control mass immigration? Europe can’t even control mass tourism

17 Aug 2017

Wanted: some serious conservatism in the media

16 Aug 2017

How ‘speech codes’ discriminate against vulnerable people

15 Aug 2017

Human progress is real but so is our vulnerability… because the same tech drives both

14 Aug 2017

Artificial intelligence without the hype

11 Aug 2017

Lessons from the first attempt at a European union

06 Aug 2017

Aircraft carriers would be no match for a robot pigeon

04 Aug 2017

Is capitalism ‘productive’ or a city ‘diverse’ if they don’t leave room for children?

02 Aug 2017

How racist is your computer?

01 Aug 2017

To solve the housing crisis we must stop the speculators

01 Aug 2017

How your ‘digital twin’ could get you into trouble

31 Jul 2017

How the decline of American Christianity helps Donald Trump

28 Jul 2017

Are you on CRISPR? You soon will be…

24 Jul 2017

The myth about the sovereignty myth

23 Jul 2017

Adultery greater among older Americans than young – and is the crash the reason?

22 Jul 2017

Beneath the cladding: Why did Britain build so many tower blocks?

22 Jul 2017

Believe in open borders and taxing wealth? Good luck!

18 Jul 2017

Get ready for Prime Minister Corbyn… and President Sanders…

16 Jul 2017