Peter Franklin

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

Britain: A tale of two retail giants

26 Aug 2020

In defence of the garden fence

25 Aug 2020

Why Boris needs an heir apparent

18 Aug 2020

Un-herding the animals of Animal Farm

17 Aug 2020

‘Recession’ doesn’t begin to cover it

13 Aug 2020

Silly season comes to the Blue Tick brigade

12 Aug 2020

How ID cards could set us free

11 Aug 2020

Are British workers skiving-off?

10 Aug 2020

‘Rightwashing’ is the wrong approach to viewpoint diversity

06 Aug 2020

The coming struggle for space on our streets

04 Aug 2020

It’s time the Tories got tough on landlords

03 Aug 2020

The housing market that wouldn’t die

30 Jul 2020

If we can’t ‘crush the curve’, let’s downsize the dose

29 Jul 2020

Give Grant Shapps a break!

28 Jul 2020

Has lockdown broken old habits for good?

27 Jul 2020

Is Tesla all that remains of real capitalism?

23 Jul 2020

The hypocrisy of conserving Modernist architecture

22 Jul 2020

The myth of ‘Anglo-America’

21 Jul 2020

Is Dua Lipa an Albanian nationalist?

20 Jul 2020

How the elephant lost its trunk

20 Jul 2020

The collective benefit of mask-wearing

17 Jul 2020

The EU’s fiendish game of beggar my neighbour

15 Jul 2020

How we make life easy for the modern slavers

14 Jul 2020

In defence of working-class conservatism

13 Jul 2020

Why isn’t the Creative Class more creative?

09 Jul 2020

Don’t burn our money, Chancellor

08 Jul 2020

How the establishment fell for eugenics

07 Jul 2020

Would you have sex with an alien?

06 Jul 2020

Chinese nuclear power in Britain? No thanks!

02 Jul 2020

It’s Germany’s EU now

01 Jul 2020

Why won’t liberals defend liberalism?

30 Jun 2020

France’s Green revolution

29 Jun 2020

Isaac Asimov’s dangerous idea

25 Jun 2020

The Age of Excuses is over

24 Jun 2020

A city should be a home, not a playground

23 Jun 2020

Why heroes should wear masks

22 Jun 2020

Why capitalise ‘Black’ but not ‘white’?

18 Jun 2020

Arise, Lord Cummings of Barnard Castle!

17 Jun 2020

What Boris actually said about purging the past

15 Jun 2020

How to rescue Generation Rent

15 Jun 2020

How did Covid come to Britain?

11 Jun 2020

Why the Conservatives are right to ban evictions

10 Jun 2020

A V-shaped recovery? U have got to be joking

09 Jun 2020

The inequality that fuels our dangerous times

08 Jun 2020

Is the world facing a hysteretic shock?

04 Jun 2020

After Trump, will a more dangerous demagogue arrive?

03 Jun 2020

Hyper-connectivity: Our fatal weakness

02 Jun 2020

Could coronavirus topple skyscrapers?

01 Jun 2020

The self-harm of Britain’s R&D policies

29 May 2020

To revive the economy, tax Britain’s piggy banks

27 May 2020

The terrible threat of Wokenomics

26 May 2020

Let’s put young Brits to work planting trees

22 May 2020

Sobriety tags? Great, let’s put them on politicians

20 May 2020

Will Covid mark the end of national sovereignty in Europe?

19 May 2020

Should we let the aviation industry die?

18 May 2020

After lockdown, prepare for the Big Move

14 May 2020

The new battle line in libertarian thought

13 May 2020

Are the young turning into progressive authoritarians?

12 May 2020

Not so rosy: the legacy of the Coalition government

11 May 2020

Has Germany just blown up the Eurozone?

07 May 2020

The FT’s shameful false equivalence on America and China

06 May 2020

Covid is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity

05 May 2020

Not now please, Universal Basic Income enthusiasts

04 May 2020

Can we have a grown-up conversation about free trade?

01 May 2020

Will the pandemic simplify our lives?

30 Apr 2020

The Guardian’s paranoid anti-nationalism

28 Apr 2020

Our government must learn to fail

28 Apr 2020

Should we all go Amish for the NHS?

24 Apr 2020

Will a desperate EU resort to ‘perpetual bonds’?

22 Apr 2020

The poison in the veins of the global economy

21 Apr 2020

If Britain is becoming a ‘one-party state’, blame Labour

20 Apr 2020

Who will pay for this Covid catastrophe?

20 Apr 2020

Is air pollution making the pandemic worse?

10 Apr 2020

Joe Biden didn’t win, Bernie lost

09 Apr 2020

Why certain Right-wingers thirst for secret knowledge

08 Apr 2020

Has the FT really changed its mind on capitalism?

07 Apr 2020

Corbyn, Trump and other freaks of history

07 Apr 2020

Why are so many Italian doctors dying?

03 Apr 2020

The things we do for growth

02 Apr 2020

We’re going to need a new name for the Great Recession

01 Apr 2020

Will coronavirus kill the shale revolution?

31 Mar 2020

Why do these epidemics always start in China?

27 Mar 2020

Why we’re lost without our taboos

26 Mar 2020

David Cameron was right about one thing

25 Mar 2020

Can your ideology cope with coronavirus?

24 Mar 2020

The fatal flaw in the Job Retention Scheme

23 Mar 2020

No, Matt Hancock, this is not a “once-in-a-century event”

20 Mar 2020

Do we need a government of national unity?

19 Mar 2020

The no-deal nightmare scenario doesn’t seem so bad now

18 Mar 2020

Why had we never heard of Wuhan?

17 Mar 2020

What on Earth are the Saudis playing at?

12 Mar 2020

Welcome to ‘Conzervatism’

11 Mar 2020

Ten woke ways to shut down debate

10 Mar 2020

Objectifying women: what’s the problem?

06 Mar 2020

The toilet paper crisis is just bog-standard capitalism

05 Mar 2020

Are humans heading for the knacker’s yard?

04 Mar 2020

Panicking about coronavirus will save lives

03 Mar 2020

The end of the world for climate change hypocrites

27 Feb 2020

Memo to Boris: Buses will only get you so far

26 Feb 2020

No Mr Mount, Boris Johnson is not Mussolini

25 Feb 2020