Peter Franklin

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

What do post-liberals really want?

25 Feb 2020

Why do ‘open’ liberals live in closed communities?

21 Feb 2020

Should we give the cabinet an IQ test?

19 Feb 2020

Bigger than Brexit: the new politics of climate change

19 Feb 2020

What’s the point of sex?

14 Feb 2020

Please Boris, let HS2 be your last white elephant

13 Feb 2020

Why shouldn’t modern buildings be beautiful?

11 Feb 2020

Dominic Cummings must win the battle of the SpAds

11 Feb 2020

Why we should be worried about coronavirus

11 Feb 2020

What Walter Bagehot would say about the State of the Union

06 Feb 2020

Boris is right — mercantilists are everywhere

05 Feb 2020

In (partial) defence of Grace Blakeley

04 Feb 2020

Which is worse, work or no work?

04 Feb 2020

Coronavirus leaves no room for cultural sensitivity

30 Jan 2020

The House of Lords should become the Future Chamber

29 Jan 2020

Labour must decentralise or die

28 Jan 2020

Should we be allowed to lie about our age?

27 Jan 2020

Tyler Cowen is pulling on a dangerous thread

23 Jan 2020

When sensitive language stops helping

22 Jan 2020

Should we send the Lords up north?

21 Jan 2020

What Sajid Javid should say at Davos, but won’t

21 Jan 2020

The dark side of digital money

16 Jan 2020

Nudge off: Is the end in sight for behavioural economics?

15 Jan 2020

The real reason why the high street is dying

14 Jan 2020

How Boris could blow his majority

13 Jan 2020

Ursula von der London

08 Jan 2020

Here’s a better idea for reforming Whitehall

08 Jan 2020

Let’s re-do the Political Studies Association awards

07 Jan 2020

Greens need to starting talking solutions

30 Dec 2019

Three myths about social conservatives

25 Dec 2019

Tolkien’s guide to contemporary politics

25 Dec 2019

2015 was a warm-up for the liberal Ragnarök

24 Dec 2019

Don’t nuke the North, Dom

19 Dec 2019

Let’s all go back to the year 2000

18 Dec 2019

Don’t cancel the Corbynites

17 Dec 2019

Did this election change anything?

16 Dec 2019

Bernie Sanders is America’s magic grandpa

12 Dec 2019

How we ruined election campaigns

11 Dec 2019

Has the FT turned red?

10 Dec 2019

What would ‘living with less’ actually look like?

09 Dec 2019

Who is the world’s most typical person?

05 Dec 2019

To boldly go? You first, Mr Bezos

04 Dec 2019

How to turn higher production into higher wages

03 Dec 2019

Is this the Tories’ real manifesto?

02 Dec 2019

How old is too old in politics?

28 Nov 2019

Should we have just waited for the EU to die?

28 Nov 2019

Netflix is like food – more doesn’t mean better

27 Nov 2019

Housing policy — will the Tories never learn?

25 Nov 2019

Is the British jobs miracle fake news?

25 Nov 2019

Two cheers for Labour’s housing policy

21 Nov 2019

What the fork, Marie Kondo?

21 Nov 2019

Who are the Boris-backing C2DEs?

20 Nov 2019

Sajid Javid’s land tax doesn’t go far enough

19 Nov 2019

Let the state demolish bad new buildings

18 Nov 2019

Deadlocked Democracy

14 Nov 2019

David Cameron’s fake news about fake news

13 Nov 2019

Britain should lead the way on farm subsidies

12 Nov 2019

10 things I hate about Germany

07 Nov 2019

Why Miranda is more daring than Fleabag

04 Nov 2019

The real horror of Halloween

31 Oct 2019

The real reason why people hate vegans

30 Oct 2019

Trouble in Umbria as Salvini soars

28 Oct 2019

How the world forgot the financial crash

28 Oct 2019

WeWork tells us what works in the wider economy

25 Oct 2019

Liberals against democracy?

24 Oct 2019

There’s no such thing as Left versus Right

24 Oct 2019

John Simpson’s two thirds idea is half-baked

22 Oct 2019

Will the EU shut down its tax havens?

21 Oct 2019

Daylight robbery: how lack of sunlight is keeping us awake

18 Oct 2019

There is nothing wrong with neoliberalism… as a word

16 Oct 2019

Could free cash fix the economy?

16 Oct 2019

Late Capitalism? Don’t you believe it.

15 Oct 2019

Why would anyone buy a negative yield bond?

10 Oct 2019

Tax evading billionaires will put Warren in the White House

10 Oct 2019

What if Germany’s economy toppled?

09 Oct 2019

Are socialists liberal? A response to Maajid Nawaz

08 Oct 2019

Why does everyone hate inheritance tax?

07 Oct 2019

How the West is winning Chinese talent

07 Oct 2019

Fake blood won’t do it: the climate change movement needs to lead by example

04 Oct 2019

Why do some people find more purpose in life than others?

03 Oct 2019

How much trouble is the economy in?

02 Oct 2019

One step forward, one step back in the battle for beauty

01 Oct 2019

Five ways the Tories could lose the election

30 Sep 2019

Imagine David Cameron had won his referendum

27 Sep 2019

Greta Thunberg, post-liberal prophet

26 Sep 2019

Meanwhile in America… President Yang?

25 Sep 2019

The letter of the law versus the spirit of the constitution

24 Sep 2019

Singapore-on-Thames? Yes please!

23 Sep 2019

Don’t miss today’s good news on climate

20 Sep 2019

How Jeremy Corbyn could get the top job

20 Sep 2019

Report: Anarchists vs centrists is the new Left vs Right

18 Sep 2019

Meanwhile in Guy Verhofstadt’s back yard…

18 Sep 2019

We aren’t getting the best from our brains

17 Sep 2019

What’s wrong with the weekend news?

16 Sep 2019

Calm down, ‘deepfake’ news is not here yet

13 Sep 2019

Don’t let the liberals write our constitution

13 Sep 2019

‘Left-behind’ communities are closer than you think

12 Sep 2019

Why is the world going blind?

11 Sep 2019

The nation’s twitchers are rising up

10 Sep 2019

The schools that Britain forgot

09 Sep 2019