Peter Franklin

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

Spain tilts to the Right in regional elections

29 May 2023

Dune: Part Two doesn’t need to be sanitised

25 May 2023

How Right-wing is too Right-wing for Western leaders?

22 May 2023

Where is Rishi Sunak’s industrial strategy?

18 May 2023

Does Ukraine have Brexit to thank for Western support?

15 May 2023

Millennial Millie is no better than Mondeo Man

12 May 2023

The Green Party is the latest threat to the Tories

08 May 2023

Beware the military-AI complex

04 May 2023

The Covid questions that just won’t go away

01 May 2023

Chinese cars pose an existential threat to Europe

27 Apr 2023

The towns that defied the global baby shortage

24 Apr 2023

Just Stop Oil should stop targeting normies

20 Apr 2023

Donald Trump Jr comes to Bud Light’s rescue

17 Apr 2023

Why won’t San Francisco save itself?

14 Apr 2023

Why are Americans getting dumber?

12 Apr 2023

President Le Pen? It’s never been more likely

06 Apr 2023

Sanna Marin’s fall confirms that populism is back

03 Apr 2023

Why is Jeremy Hunt attacking Joe Biden?

30 Mar 2023

We can’t stop AI — so let’s ride the tiger

29 Mar 2023

Why are Americans dying so young?

28 Mar 2023

Are raccoon dogs really to blame for Covid?

24 Mar 2023

The Dutch farmers’ party victory is a warning to the green movement

21 Mar 2023

Dr Fauci is still downplaying the lab-leak hypothesis

13 Mar 2023

In defence of Russell Brand

10 Mar 2023

National conservatism has a future in Britain

09 Mar 2023

The danger in Keir Starmer appointing Sue Gray

02 Mar 2023

Is Mexico’s President right to think that elves exist?

01 Mar 2023

Is the Ukraine war about to spread to Moldova?

24 Feb 2023

Beware the promise of ‘peak woke’

22 Feb 2023

Is a religious revival breaking out in America?

16 Feb 2023

Is this the new golden era of UFOs?

13 Feb 2023

The danger of Sweden’s Sami Day celebrations

09 Feb 2023

If China is covering up its Covid death toll, what else is it hiding?

06 Feb 2023

There will be no ‘graceful defeat’ for the Tories

03 Feb 2023

Why young people leaving the cities is bad for the Tories

01 Feb 2023

The EU’s trade war hypocrisy

26 Jan 2023

Why would South America want a single currency?

23 Jan 2023

What Bolshevism tells us about the future of wokeism

20 Jan 2023

The Davos 2023 agenda lies in ruins

16 Jan 2023

Andrew Bridgen: the latest example of Right-wing self-sabotage

12 Jan 2023

The future belongs to competent populists

10 Jan 2023

Rishi Sunak needs a new speechwriter

05 Jan 2023

Decolonisation isn’t just about the West

03 Jan 2023

Five things that didn’t happen in 2022

30 Dec 2022

Bring back secular Christmas

25 Dec 2022

Living in the pod should not be an option

23 Dec 2022

European populism is going mainstream

19 Dec 2022

Zero Covid means no ‘Chinese century’

15 Dec 2022

The danger of the eurozone’s hidden divide

14 Dec 2022

Welcome to the Dyson Zone: your isolated world

09 Dec 2022

Keir Starmer can finish what the Tories started

05 Dec 2022

Sorry Maria Ressa, censoring speech won’t save democracy

01 Dec 2022

Even British liberals are exasperated with the New York Times

29 Nov 2022

The Tories must stop ‘quiet quitting’

25 Nov 2022

Jeremy Hunt has no vision for Britain

17 Nov 2022

The moral lesson from Sam Bankman-Fried’s downfall

14 Nov 2022

Right-wing populists need a new strategy

10 Nov 2022

Twitter is proof that Big Tech is out of ideas

07 Nov 2022

The fate of Wilhelm Reich is a warning to us today

03 Nov 2022

Don’t blame Liz Truss for her phone hack

31 Oct 2022

The Covid question that won’t go away

28 Oct 2022

This is not a globalist coup

24 Oct 2022

A Labour landslide would be a disaster

20 Oct 2022

Jeremy Hunt liquidates Liz Truss

17 Oct 2022

Emmanuel Macron moves to crush the protesters (again)

13 Oct 2022

Liz Truss is a liberalist, not a liberal

10 Oct 2022

Did green protesters save Liz Truss?

05 Oct 2022

Liz Truss is on the horns of a trilemma

03 Oct 2022

The silver lining of Black Wednesday 2.0

30 Sep 2022

Giorgia Meloni crushes her friends as well as enemies

26 Sep 2022

Kwasi Kwarteng bets the house on old ideas

23 Sep 2022

What the IEA gets wrong about liberalism

22 Sep 2022

Honi soit qui mal y pense

19 Sep 2022

Republicans may not like what comes after monarchy

16 Sep 2022

Is the energy crisis just a panic?

12 Sep 2022

The Queen became a true Christian leader

11 Sep 2022

Don’t do an Osborne, Rishi

06 Sep 2022

Why British liberals should thank Nigel Farage

02 Sep 2022

The Guardian tries to cancel gardening

30 Aug 2022

Emily Maitlis gives a masterclass in BBC bias

25 Aug 2022

Wind farms are profiteering during Britain’s energy crisis

23 Aug 2022

Liz Truss needs a Minister for Winter

19 Aug 2022

Britain can become an education super-exporter

16 Aug 2022

Catholicism needs to get weird again

12 Aug 2022

Rishi Sunak is right about worthless university degrees

08 Aug 2022

Why are America’s politicians so old?

04 Aug 2022

Is this a turning point in the Tory leadership race?

02 Aug 2022

Boris has gone, but his policies remain popular

29 Jul 2022

Can Britain still celebrate itself?

28 Jul 2022

Liberals are getting complacent over Giorgia Meloni

26 Jul 2022

Liz Truss to win? I’m not so sure

21 Jul 2022

Did tactical votes defeat Kemi?

19 Jul 2022

The real weaknesses of the Tory candidates

18 Jul 2022

Will a TV debate sink Penny Mordaunt?

14 Jul 2022

New populist party storms into Danish politics

13 Jul 2022

A wacky start to the Tory leadership race

11 Jul 2022

Boris Derangement Syndrome lives on

08 Jul 2022

How Boris can survive

06 Jul 2022

Marine Le Pen’s revenge against Emmanuel Macron

05 Jul 2022

The danger of digital tattoos

30 Jun 2022