Peter Franklin

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

Why we need to remember Martin Weitzman

06 Sep 2019

Toryism is not conservatism

05 Sep 2019

Are breakaway parties always doomed?

05 Sep 2019

Is this a long-term age of discord?

04 Sep 2019

East Germany is fertile hunting ground for populists

02 Sep 2019

There’s no such thing as factory farming

30 Aug 2019

The global economy has gone mad

27 Aug 2019

What’s making Millennials so lonely?

23 Aug 2019

Boris’s stimulus stunt

21 Aug 2019

How Cornwall took back control

20 Aug 2019

Big Bezos is watching you

19 Aug 2019

Why cities are no place for kids

16 Aug 2019

The battle for the Tory Party’s soul

14 Aug 2019

The latest reason to scrap HS2

12 Aug 2019

Boris should make Britain beautiful again

07 Aug 2019

How Spain could rule the Eurozone

05 Aug 2019

The 10 brains behind Dominic Cummings

02 Aug 2019

How WEIRD are you?

31 Jul 2019

Are we due another recession?

29 Jul 2019

A ray of hope for a burning world

25 Jul 2019

Could Boris solve the housing crisis?

24 Jul 2019

Do leaders bluff their way to the top?

22 Jul 2019

Elon Musk’s extra-terrestrial threat

17 Jul 2019

Could economics explain rising birth rates?

17 Jul 2019

Why did we forget the father of science?

16 Jul 2019

How sexist is your air conditioning?

15 Jul 2019

China’s great global game

11 Jul 2019

The truth behind Trump’s victory

09 Jul 2019

The problem with political journalism

08 Jul 2019

How politics became polarised

03 Jul 2019

Sod the singularity

02 Jul 2019

The liberals are falling into Putin’s trap

28 Jun 2019

The inevitability of debt

28 Jun 2019

Why is Zuckerberg inventing a currency?

26 Jun 2019

Is too much money a bad thing?

24 Jun 2019

Are we really reaching full employment?

21 Jun 2019

Can we do without religion?

20 Jun 2019

Is the Conservative Party brain dead?

19 Jun 2019

In praise of media scare stories

18 Jun 2019

Are you ready for ‘fully automated luxury communism’?

12 Jun 2019

How AI will terminate us

11 Jun 2019

Why the elites dumped on San Francisco

10 Jun 2019

How Europe smothered the radical Left

07 Jun 2019

How long will the Brexit Party last?

06 Jun 2019

Is this the world’s worst housing project?

05 Jun 2019

How to beat the politics of punishment

03 Jun 2019

York was destined to be capital

31 May 2019

What’s GoT got to do with office politics?

30 May 2019

Why Britain needs a De Gaulle

29 May 2019

Will the EU become an empire?

28 May 2019

Ten visitors more terrible than Trump

20 May 2019

What Blairism shares with populism

17 May 2019

Will the internet reawaken the dead?

15 May 2019

Which experts should we trust?

14 May 2019

You can keep your free money

13 May 2019

Could Joe Biden blow our minds?

10 May 2019

Could we drag drivers from their cars?

09 May 2019

In search of the little green men

08 May 2019

Let’s close down open-plan offices

07 May 2019

Could a rentquake topple Trump?

02 May 2019

Does Britain need a post-liberal party?

01 May 2019

The most important policy we don’t talk about

30 Apr 2019

How much do globalists really value diversity?

29 Apr 2019

Why the Matrix needs humans

26 Apr 2019

The hideous spread of ‘spreadsheet architecture’

24 Apr 2019

Who will ride the Green wave?

23 Apr 2019

Ten precedents for a compromise Brexit

17 Apr 2019

Crony capitalism is empowering the Left

16 Apr 2019

Why aren’t the Tories talking about economics?

15 Apr 2019

Tolkien’s guide to contemporary politics

11 Apr 2019

Does a big society need a Big God?

10 Apr 2019

To revive our cities we must set them free

09 Apr 2019

What cost convenience?

08 Apr 2019

What’s really to blame for the opioid crisis?

04 Apr 2019

Call yourself post-liberal?

03 Apr 2019

Robots will kill us with kindness

02 Apr 2019

How university re-establishes hierarchy

01 Apr 2019

Why low interest rates poison the economy

28 Mar 2019

Why middle England became middle class

27 Mar 2019

The disruptive promise of internet voting

26 Mar 2019

What’s the point of central government?

25 Mar 2019

Does Germany have an answer to the housing crisis?

19 Mar 2019

Who benefits from the Uberised economy?

18 Mar 2019

Why is French democracy so prone to violence?

15 Mar 2019

Britain’s Brexit paralysis

14 Mar 2019

The fall of social democracy

13 Mar 2019

The political significance of beards

12 Mar 2019

Down and out in the Golden State

11 Mar 2019

Can you afford parenthood?

08 Mar 2019

Who’s most intolerant in America?

07 Mar 2019

It’s time to overhaul economic policy

06 Mar 2019

Just how mad is the Green New Deal?

05 Mar 2019

The fall of Five Star is bad news for democracy

04 Mar 2019

Should we pity the rich?

01 Mar 2019

The monopolists’ manifesto

28 Feb 2019

What will survive global warming?

27 Feb 2019

Will Spain’s working poor take revenge?

26 Feb 2019

Is there anything Amazon can’t dominate?

25 Feb 2019

How to make money from a housing crisis

22 Feb 2019

Are we blinded by mathematics?

21 Feb 2019