Peter Franklin

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

A tax-cutting budget without any tax cuts

26 Oct 2021

Globalisation has ruined Hollywood

25 Oct 2021

How Poland could bring down the EU

21 Oct 2021

The synthetic drugs destroying America

20 Oct 2021

The libertarian Right is scapegoating Net Zero

18 Oct 2021

Is Boris spending like a drunken sailor?

13 Oct 2021

When will the Left stop telling itself fairy tales?

11 Oct 2021

Do we discriminate against boring people?

06 Oct 2021

Boris Johnson’s disaster Toryism

05 Oct 2021

Listen to Elon Musk, not Keir Starmer

30 Sep 2021

Will China introduce forced fertilisation?

29 Sep 2021

Dream all you like, but there is no centre-Left revival

27 Sep 2021

On climate change, Boris Johnson is no Margaret Thatcher

23 Sep 2021

Sorry, the energy crisis has nothing to do with Brexit or hippies

22 Sep 2021

Serfs don’t vote Tory

21 Sep 2021

Evergrande could trigger a global economic crisis

20 Sep 2021

Michael Gove is now the most important man in government

15 Sep 2021

What Boris can learn from Barnier

15 Sep 2021

Emma Raducanu’s overlooked heritage

13 Sep 2021

How Conservatives MPs are different from their voters

10 Sep 2021

Angela Merkel’s reign of failure

09 Sep 2021

Meet Japan’s wannabe Margaret Thatcher

08 Sep 2021

Immortal billionaires? What could go wrong!

07 Sep 2021

You need to know about the Doge meme NFT

02 Sep 2021

We need more Pen Farthings

01 Sep 2021

The West can learn from China’s crackdown on gaming

31 Aug 2021

More money doesn’t make better schools

27 Aug 2021

The British Brit-bashers are at it again

26 Aug 2021

How Tony Blair gets away with it

25 Aug 2021

Germany’s ‘black zero’ fetish hurts the rest of Europe

23 Aug 2021

The debate on Afghanistan exposed a delusional Parliament

19 Aug 2021

America can still win

19 Aug 2021

It’s impossible to stop politicians lying

18 Aug 2021

What’s gone wrong with London architecture?

17 Aug 2021

Italy has become an ECB dependency

16 Aug 2021

The mysterious Covid productivity bonus

12 Aug 2021

How Boris can end climate change

11 Aug 2021

No, Orbán is not the Chávez of the Right

09 Aug 2021

Will Biden look beyond the bobos?

05 Aug 2021

Bankers are running the country

04 Aug 2021

Is Niall Ferguson planning to start a university?

02 Aug 2021

Unesco is right to ditch Liverpool

23 Jul 2021

Don’t blame global warming on men

22 Jul 2021

How Boris can survive Cummings

21 Jul 2021

The map that should terrify the West

19 Jul 2021

Boris Johnson’s dreadful ‘levelling-up’ speech

15 Jul 2021

Let’s leave Branson in space

14 Jul 2021

The Left is curiously silent on Cuba

13 Jul 2021

Italy’s young voters are drifting to the Right

12 Jul 2021

Why can’t anyone afford property? Blame central banks

09 Jul 2021

Brexit isn’t going to plan

08 Jul 2021

Sorry Extinction Rebellion, but nature is not progressive

06 Jul 2021

Canada’s heatwave is a vision of our future

02 Jul 2021

Labour deserves to lose Batley and Spen

30 Jun 2021

Meet COREPER, the secret committee at the heart of Europe

28 Jun 2021

Have we reached peak progressive?

24 Jun 2021

How Boris can save the Blue Wall

23 Jun 2021

Why is China pulling the plug on coal?

22 Jun 2021

Can the Liberal Democrats become the party of the South?

17 Jun 2021

Why we need the Great Reset

16 Jun 2021

The biggest threat to the post-Covid economic recovery: the Germans

15 Jun 2021

Would you pull the legs off a fly?

11 Jun 2021

The woke don’t want to save the world

10 Jun 2021

Will we accept human-animal hybrids?

08 Jun 2021

Bangladesh: the world’s hidden success story

03 Jun 2021

Tim Martin’s Remainer enemies are missing the point

02 Jun 2021

Is Boris Johnson really a Catholic?

01 Jun 2021

Should conservatives offer sanctuary to dissidents of the Left?

28 May 2021

Told you so: Charles Darwin next up for cancellation

26 May 2021

Is it time to sell your Bitcoin?

25 May 2021

Boris owes it all to Theresa May

24 May 2021

Revealed: The most important political trend of our time

20 May 2021

The end of woke is nigh

19 May 2021

America takes UFOs seriously, so why don’t we?

17 May 2021

The psychic powers of the contemporary Left

14 May 2021

Is Christianity the anti-green religion?

13 May 2021

Ten ways things could get worse for Labour

12 May 2021

Thatcherism died a long time ago — but Labour has only just realised

10 May 2021

The Tories: the Doctor Who of political parties

07 May 2021

Labour needs to be humiliated

06 May 2021

Long live the Tartarian Empire!

05 May 2021

Don’t place science on a pedestal

30 Apr 2021

Beware the post-Covid surveillance state

29 Apr 2021

Westminster’s empty narcissism

28 Apr 2021

Should universities no platform flat-earthers?

27 Apr 2021

Highest level of borrowing since the War? Don’t worry about it!

23 Apr 2021

The Lefties at the heart of government

22 Apr 2021

It’s time to unlock Parliament and pin-down government

21 Apr 2021

More tea, Associate Archdeacon Transition Enabler?

20 Apr 2021

When will the ‘experts’ apologise for their Brexit predictions?

19 Apr 2021

Why we won’t cancel Yuri Gagarin

12 Apr 2021

Can Jennifer Lopez tempt you back to work?

08 Apr 2021

The hypocrisy of David Cameron

08 Apr 2021

America’s disturbing death statistics

07 Apr 2021

Make the Church weird again

02 Apr 2021

Where Viktor Orbán leads, the EU follows

31 Mar 2021

How Starmer can beat the Tories

31 Mar 2021

We need memorials for murdered buildings

30 Mar 2021

It’s not just the Suez Canal, our world is full of choke points

26 Mar 2021

What is your ideological blindspot?

25 Mar 2021