Peter Franklin

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

Brexiteers can’t deny Scots a vote

24 Mar 2021

Are female leaders really so different?

22 Mar 2021

A British idiot’s guide to the Dutch election result

19 Mar 2021

Is Denmark creating an inverted-Apartheid?

18 Mar 2021

Has the EU lost its mind?

17 Mar 2021

Angela Merkel’s crumbling legacy

15 Mar 2021

We can’t all take on the cistern and win

14 Mar 2021

The next front in the culture wars: AI-voiced cartoons

11 Mar 2021

How long before beauty itself becomes taboo?

10 Mar 2021

Memo to populists: it’s security, not liberty, stupid

08 Mar 2021

Robots: the new Republican dividing line

05 Mar 2021

The moral bankruptcy of cancel culture

04 Mar 2021

How the EU humiliated itself

03 Mar 2021

What’s spooking Rishi?

02 Mar 2021

Mark Carney has some explaining to do

26 Feb 2021

Will Rishi Sunak survive this Budget?

25 Feb 2021

Where have all the workers gone?

24 Feb 2021

The ‘new optimists’ can’t see the wood for the trees

22 Feb 2021

Why Left and Right alike fall for junk economics

19 Feb 2021

Why we don’t tolerate Covid deaths among the over 70s

18 Feb 2021

Europe is waiting for its Napoleon

17 Feb 2021

Why Labour can’t unite the tribes of Britain

15 Feb 2021

Why Keir Starmer should be worried about the Greens

12 Feb 2021

The death of the idle rich

10 Feb 2021

Tory wars over Brexit are far from over

08 Feb 2021

The EU would if it could, but it can’t so it won’t

05 Feb 2021

What Roger Hallam gets right — and wrong

04 Feb 2021

Why the cleverest man in the world was wrong

03 Feb 2021

Free money or free school meals? There’s another option

02 Feb 2021

Europe shows its true colours

01 Feb 2021

Does calling a man a pig perpetuate human supremacy?

28 Jan 2021

George Monbiot’s ‘Ministry of Truth’ is a dangerous idea

27 Jan 2021

Are we about to witness a cloning boom?

26 Jan 2021

A Moonshot Mission that misses its target

26 Jan 2021

Brexit was not a ‘Whiggish’ project

22 Jan 2021

The basic flaw in British Government

22 Jan 2021

Does good taste excuse grand corruption?

21 Jan 2021

After Trump, conservatives must return to core values

20 Jan 2021

Stop stat-shaming the public

15 Jan 2021

Donald Trump was America’s first post-modern President

13 Jan 2021

Does the Government still care about levelling up?

12 Jan 2021

There’s a world beyond China and the EU

11 Jan 2021

Liberals rarely defend liberalism

31 Dec 2020

Ten ways this year could have been worse

28 Dec 2020

Have yourself a melancholy Christmas

24 Dec 2020

It’s not just the Covid cranks spreading misinformation

22 Dec 2020

Why politicians shouldn’t get the vaccine first

18 Dec 2020

Has California’s day in the sun finished?

17 Dec 2020

Restorations always fail

16 Dec 2020

Without Brexit, things would have been much worse

11 Dec 2020

On the elite Left, there’s horror at patriotism of any kind

10 Dec 2020

Now wokeness can make you sick

09 Dec 2020

The PM’s cabinet of puppets and placemen

08 Dec 2020

Nottingham and the fall of civilisation

07 Dec 2020

Give Harry a break, he’s right about Covid

03 Dec 2020

Don’t mess with Kent

02 Dec 2020

The case for aid should have been patriotic, not preachy

27 Nov 2020

Will Covid kill Silicon Valley?

26 Nov 2020

This is no time for austerity

25 Nov 2020

Should we ‘call in’ people instead of calling them out?

23 Nov 2020

Why won’t Twitter use its blue pencil on Red China?

20 Nov 2020

Brexit makes more sense than ever

19 Nov 2020

How do we bring down factory farming?

18 Nov 2020

The real problem with Marcus Rashford’s property portfolio

17 Nov 2020

The missed opportunity of Dominic Cummings

13 Nov 2020

Liberals are the same, but populists are different

12 Nov 2020

The EU must not interfere in religion

11 Nov 2020

Yanis Varoufakis is right to be wary of Biden

10 Nov 2020

Just what we need: a mutant mink plague

06 Nov 2020

Was the virus engineered?

05 Nov 2020

There can be no winner now

04 Nov 2020

The twilight of the populists?

03 Nov 2020

Centrists are the biggest threat to democracy

02 Nov 2020

What will replace the old ‘Left-Right’ divide?

29 Oct 2020

So which ‘stans’ are you allowed to joke about?

28 Oct 2020

Who are the real tribes of Britain?

27 Oct 2020

Will Joe Biden come after Hungary?

22 Oct 2020

Send helicopter money to the North

21 Oct 2020

China’s war against the family

19 Oct 2020

When did ‘sexual preference’ become politically incorrect?

15 Oct 2020

The empty symbolism of the Nobel Prize for Economics

14 Oct 2020

Will $30 billion fix racial inequality?

13 Oct 2020

The traffic wars speeding your way

09 Oct 2020

Populist or progressive? Post-Covid politics will be neither

09 Oct 2020

Boris Johnson’s U-turn

07 Oct 2020

The Tory problem with poshness

06 Oct 2020

Five reasons why populism is here to stay

01 Oct 2020

Ann Coulter for President?

30 Sep 2020

Let’s recruit our politicians from overseas

29 Sep 2020

Is the mob coming for Charles Darwin?

28 Sep 2020

Did the British invent anything?

24 Sep 2020

No Covid culture wars please, we’re British

23 Sep 2020

The unspoken truth about our permissive society

21 Sep 2020

Why fusionism failed

16 Sep 2020

How liberals paid the price for breaking Britain

15 Sep 2020

The greatest stories never told

08 Sep 2020

Watch out for the DIY surveillance state

04 Sep 2020

Did we (literally) talk ourselves into a pandemic?

02 Sep 2020

Why the future of tech is trad not rad

01 Sep 2020

Don’t educate litter louts, shame them!

27 Aug 2020