Peter Franklin

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

Britain needs higher property taxes right now

28 Jun 2022

Oliver Dowden always has the last laugh

24 Jun 2022

The myth of the centre-Left ‘revival’

23 Jun 2022

France has the worst electoral system in the world

20 Jun 2022

Dear bishops, stop grandstanding on Rwanda

16 Jun 2022

The Left threatens Macron’s majority

13 Jun 2022

America is not in a ‘reactionary moment’

09 Jun 2022

Boris Johnson isn’t the problem

06 Jun 2022

The biblical meaning of a Jubilee

02 Jun 2022

Will Boris survive? History provides the clues

01 Jun 2022

Tony Blair is back with (another) centrist party

27 May 2022

Progressives have made gun control harder

25 May 2022

Business as usual at Davos — but don’t mention Putin

23 May 2022

Nick Clegg is wrong about the metaverse (again)

19 May 2022

Who will topple Boris Johnson?

16 May 2022

The petty backlash to the Street Votes proposal

13 May 2022

The UK should join Macron’s EU Lite

12 May 2022

Olaf Scholz suffers electoral humiliation

09 May 2022

Is a crisis brewing in the Eurozone?

09 May 2022

Westminster Tories deserved to lose

06 May 2022

The European map that explains populist politics

04 May 2022

Calm down, liberals: Elon Musk is no threat to democracy (yet)

28 Apr 2022

France’s old duopoly is officially dead

27 Apr 2022

After Marine Le Pen, what next for the French Right?

24 Apr 2022

Secularism is leaving us feeling empty

20 Apr 2022

The EU would survive President Marine le Pen

19 Apr 2022

The collapse of French conservatism is the story of the night

11 Apr 2022

Germany is letting Europe down

08 Apr 2022

In Shanghai, Zero Covid means zero freedom

06 Apr 2022

Why does Boris want to nuke the UK?

05 Apr 2022

Can France’s deplorables secure a Le Pen victory?

04 Apr 2022

Has Putin’s invasion hurt the European Left?

31 Mar 2022

Ignore the wheat panic: the world still has plenty

29 Mar 2022

The EU was doomed from the start

25 Mar 2022

Rishi Sunak could have helped the poor — but didn’t

23 Mar 2022

Éric Zemmour can’t blame Putin for his slump

22 Mar 2022

Should we envy China’s army of billionaires?

21 Mar 2022

How globalisation cheated America

16 Mar 2022

As Britain escapes lockdown, China is still stuck

14 Mar 2022

Is the US prepared for a United States of Eurasia?

11 Mar 2022

Putin blows up his own currency

10 Mar 2022

Putin has saved Boris Johnson

09 Mar 2022

Europe is still bankrolling Russia

07 Mar 2022

Is this the end of the G20?

04 Mar 2022

Why we need a new Domesday Book

03 Mar 2022

Why the West cares more about Ukraine

28 Feb 2022

The Ukraine crisis started with Suez

25 Feb 2022

Don’t blame the Ukraine crisis on NATO enlargement

24 Feb 2022

In defence of the Gatsby house

22 Feb 2022

Shock poll rocks Spanish politics

21 Feb 2022

The New York Times erases JK Rowling

18 Feb 2022

The West is facing an unprecedented rent crisis

17 Feb 2022

Brexiteers must sacrifice the Queen

16 Feb 2022

The World Economic Forum has lost the plot

11 Feb 2022

Is Russell Brand the British Joe Rogan?

09 Feb 2022

Boris’s challengers are hidden from view

07 Feb 2022

The Medicis knew how to level up

03 Feb 2022

What Whoopi Goldberg gets wrong about race

02 Feb 2022

Sue Gray’s report is good news for Boris… so far

31 Jan 2022

Across Europe, Right-wing populists are back

31 Jan 2022

The UK economy’s superpower: creating jobs

28 Jan 2022

How the EU betrayed Ukraine

26 Jan 2022

California Governor: my state is looking ‘third world’

24 Jan 2022

Why we’ll end up eating bugs

20 Jan 2022

If Russia invades Ukraine, Germany must pay the price

19 Jan 2022

Why the poor don’t move to richer cities

17 Jan 2022

The richest 0.00001% in America are getting richer

14 Jan 2022

Who will rise from the Boris chaos?

13 Jan 2022

Bill Gates offers a non-answer to lab-leak question

12 Jan 2022

Lord Frost’s way forward is back to the 1980s

10 Jan 2022

How many years behind the US is Britain?

07 Jan 2022

Don’t silence conspiracy theorists

06 Jan 2022

Why Starmer, not Johnson, could fall in 2022

05 Jan 2022

‘Look Ahead’ gives a look at the BBC worldview

03 Jan 2022

Is Liz Truss set to be the new Alec Douglas-Home?

30 Dec 2021

The Japanification of the Eurozone

10 Dec 2021

Elon Musk is right: declining birth rates are a threat to civilisation

09 Dec 2021

What Mussolini’s teacher taught Boris

08 Dec 2021

California mathematicians turn against woke curriculum

06 Dec 2021

Ursula Von der Leyen pushes for compulsory vaccination

02 Dec 2021

At last! Labour finally has a recognisable shadow cabinet

30 Nov 2021

Left and Right unite against M&S building plans

29 Nov 2021

Three big decisions Boris got right on Covid

25 Nov 2021

Boris Johnson needs a Willie

24 Nov 2021

Benenden’s head is wrong on wokeness

22 Nov 2021

The metaverse is doomed to fail

18 Nov 2021

Why Macron snubbed the EU

17 Nov 2021

Jeff Bezos’s spaced-out vision for the human race

16 Nov 2021

American voters prefer populism to wokeness

15 Nov 2021

The New York Times’ fake ‘Brexit brain drain’

11 Nov 2021

Europe can’t defend itself

10 Nov 2021

Could a revived SDP break through?

08 Nov 2021

Britain’s forever war with France

05 Nov 2021

Boris was wrong to U-turn on Owen Paterson

04 Nov 2021

Critical Race Theory blows it for Democrats in Virginia

03 Nov 2021

Young people turn against Joe Biden

02 Nov 2021

How hard will America squeeze its billionaires?

29 Oct 2021

Lord of the Rings is better than Dune

29 Oct 2021

Modernism’s latest victim: Angers Cathedral

28 Oct 2021

A tax-cutting budget without tax cuts

27 Oct 2021