Peter Franklin

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

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

Are raccoon dogs really to blame for Covid?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The Dutch farmers’ party victory is a warning to the green movement

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Dr Fauci is still downplaying the lab-leak hypothesis

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

In defence of Russell Brand

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

National conservatism has a future in Britain

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The danger in Keir Starmer appointing Sue Gray

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Is Mexico’s President right to think that elves exist?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Is the Ukraine war about to spread to Moldova?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Beware the promise of ‘peak woke’

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Is a religious revival breaking out in America?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Is this the new golden era of UFOs?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The danger of Sweden’s Sami Day celebrations

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

If China is covering up its Covid death toll, what else is it hiding?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

There will be no ‘graceful defeat’ for the Tories

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Why young people leaving the cities is bad for the Tories

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The EU’s trade war hypocrisy 

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Why would South America want a single currency?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

What Bolshevism tells us about the future of wokeism

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

The Davos 2023 agenda lies in ruins

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Andrew Bridgen: the latest example of Right-wing self-sabotage

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The future belongs to competent populists

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Rishi Sunak needs a new speechwriter 

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Decolonisation isn’t just about the West

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Five things that didn’t happen in 2022

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Bring back secular Christmas

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Living in the pod should not be an option

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

European populism is going mainstream

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Zero Covid means no ‘Chinese century’

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

The danger of the eurozone’s hidden divide

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Welcome to the Dyson Zone: your isolated world

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Keir Starmer can finish what the Tories started

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Sorry Maria Ressa, censoring speech won’t save democracy

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Even British liberals are exasperated with the New York Times

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The Tories must stop ‘quiet quitting’

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Jeremy Hunt has no vision for Britain

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The moral lesson from Sam Bankman-Fried’s downfall

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Right-wing populists need a new strategy

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Twitter is proof that Big Tech is out of ideas

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The fate of Wilhelm Reich is a warning to us today

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Don’t blame Liz Truss for her phone hack

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The Covid question that won’t go away

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

This is not a globalist coup

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

A Labour landslide would be a disaster

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Jeremy Hunt liquidates Liz Truss

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Emmanuel Macron moves to crush the protesters (again)

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Liz Truss is a liberalist, not a liberal

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Did green protesters save Liz Truss?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Liz Truss is on the horns of a trilemma

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

The silver lining of Black Wednesday 2.0

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Giorgia Meloni crushes her friends as well as enemies

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Kwasi Kwarteng bets the house on old ideas

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

What the IEA gets wrong about liberalism

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Honi soit qui mal y pense

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Republicans may not like what comes after monarchy

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Is the energy crisis just a panic?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

The Queen became a true Christian leader

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Don’t do an Osborne, Rishi

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Why British liberals should thank Nigel Farage

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

The Guardian tries to cancel gardening

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Emily Maitlis gives a masterclass in BBC bias

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Wind farms are profiteering during Britain’s energy crisis

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Liz Truss needs a Minister for Winter

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Britain can become an education super-exporter

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Catholicism needs to get weird again

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Rishi Sunak is right about worthless university degrees

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Why are America’s politicians so old?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Is this a turning point in the Tory leadership race?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Boris has gone, but his policies remain popular

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Can Britain still celebrate itself?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Liberals are getting complacent over Giorgia Meloni

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Liz Truss to win? I’m not so sure

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Did tactical votes defeat Kemi?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The real weaknesses of the Tory candidates

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Will a TV debate sink Penny Mordaunt?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

New populist party storms into Danish politics

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

A wacky start to the Tory leadership race

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Boris Derangement Syndrome lives on

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

How Boris can survive

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Marine Le Pen’s revenge against Emmanuel Macron

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The danger of digital tattoos

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Britain needs higher property taxes right now

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Oliver Dowden always has the last laugh

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The myth of the centre-Left ‘revival’

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

France has the worst electoral system in the world

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Dear bishops, stop grandstanding on Rwanda

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The Left threatens Macron’s majority

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

America is not in a ‘reactionary moment’

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Boris Johnson isn’t the problem

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The biblical meaning of a Jubilee

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Will Boris survive? History provides the clues

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Tony Blair is back with (another) centrist party

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Progressives have made gun control harder

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Business as usual at Davos — but don’t mention Putin

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Nick Clegg is wrong about the metaverse (again)

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Who will topple Boris Johnson?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The petty backlash to the Street Votes proposal

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The UK should join Macron’s EU Lite

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Olaf Scholz suffers electoral humiliation

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Is a crisis brewing in the Eurozone?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Westminster Tories deserved to lose

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The European map that explains populist politics

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Calm down, liberals: Elon Musk is no threat to democracy (yet)

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

France’s old duopoly is officially dead

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

After Marine Le Pen, what next for the French Right?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Secularism is leaving us feeling empty

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The EU would survive President Marine le Pen

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The collapse of French conservatism is the story of the night

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Germany is letting Europe down

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

In Shanghai, Zero Covid means zero freedom

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Why does Boris want to nuke the UK?

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

Can France’s deplorables secure a Le Pen victory?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Has Putin’s invasion hurt the European Left?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Ignore the wheat panic: the world still has plenty

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The EU was doomed from the start

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Rishi Sunak could have helped the poor — but didn’t

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Éric Zemmour can’t blame Putin for his slump

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Should we envy China’s army of billionaires?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

How globalisation cheated America

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

As Britain escapes lockdown, China is still stuck

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Is the US prepared for a United States of Eurasia?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Putin blows up his own currency 

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Putin has saved Boris Johnson

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

Europe is still bankrolling Russia

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Is this the end of the G20?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Why we need a new Domesday Book

BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

Why the West cares more about Ukraine

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The Ukraine crisis started with Suez

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

Don’t blame the Ukraine crisis on NATO enlargement

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

In defence of the Gatsby house

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Shock poll rocks Spanish politics

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The New York Times erases JK Rowling

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The West is facing an unprecedented rent crisis

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Brexiteers must sacrifice the Queen

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

The World Economic Forum has lost the plot

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Is Russell Brand the British Joe Rogan?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Boris’s challengers are hidden from view

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The Medicis knew how to level up

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

What Whoopi Goldberg gets wrong about race

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Sue Gray’s report is good news for Boris… so far

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Across Europe, Right-wing populists are back

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The UK economy’s superpower: creating jobs

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

How the EU betrayed Ukraine

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

California Governor: my state is looking ‘third world’

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Why we’ll end up eating bugs

BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

If Russia invades Ukraine, Germany must pay the price

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Why the poor don’t move to richer cities

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The richest 0.00001% in America are getting richer

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Who will rise from the Boris chaos?

BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

Bill Gates offers a non-answer to lab-leak question

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Lord Frost’s way forward is back to the 1980s

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

How many years behind the US is Britain?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Don’t silence conspiracy theorists

BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

Why Starmer, not Johnson, could fall in 2022

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

‘Look Ahead’ gives a look at the BBC worldview

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Is Liz Truss set to be the new Alec Douglas-Home?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The Japanification of the Eurozone

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Elon Musk is right: declining birth rates are a threat to civilisation

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

What Mussolini’s teacher taught Boris

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

California mathematicians turn against woke curriculum

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Ursula Von der Leyen pushes for compulsory vaccination

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

At last! Labour finally has a recognisable shadow cabinet

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Left and Right unite against M&S building plans

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Three big decisions Boris got right on Covid

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Boris Johnson needs a Willie

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

Benenden’s head is wrong on wokeness

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The metaverse is doomed to fail

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Why Macron snubbed the EU

BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

Jeff Bezos’s spaced-out vision for the human race

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

American voters prefer populism to wokeness

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The New York Times’ fake ‘Brexit brain drain’

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Europe can’t defend itself

BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

Could a revived SDP break through?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Britain’s forever war with France

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

Boris was wrong to U-turn on Owen Paterson

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Critical Race Theory blows it for Democrats in Virginia

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Young people turn against Joe Biden

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

How hard will America squeeze its billionaires?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Lord of the Rings is better than Dune

BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

Modernism’s latest victim: Angers Cathedral

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

A tax-cutting budget without tax cuts

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

A tax-cutting budget without any tax cuts

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Globalisation has ruined Hollywood

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

How Poland could bring down the EU

BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

The synthetic drugs destroying America

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The libertarian Right is scapegoating Net Zero

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Is Boris spending like a drunken sailor?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

When will the Left stop telling itself fairy tales?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Do we discriminate against boring people?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Boris Johnson’s disaster Toryism

BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

Listen to Elon Musk, not Keir Starmer

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Will China introduce forced fertilisation?

BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

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

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

On climate change, Boris Johnson is no Margaret Thatcher

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Serfs don’t vote Tory

BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

Evergrande could trigger a global economic crisis

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Michael Gove is now the most important man in government

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

What Boris can learn from Barnier

BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

Emma Raducanu’s overlooked heritage

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

How Conservatives MPs are different from their voters

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Angela Merkel’s reign of failure

BY Peter Franklin / 6 mins

Meet Japan’s wannabe Margaret Thatcher

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Immortal billionaires? What could go wrong!

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

You need to know about the Doge meme NFT

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

We need more Pen Farthings

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

The West can learn from China’s crackdown on gaming

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

More money doesn’t make better schools

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The British Brit-bashers are at it again

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

How Tony Blair gets away with it

BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

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

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The debate on Afghanistan exposed a delusional Parliament

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

America can still win

BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

It’s impossible to stop politicians lying

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

What’s gone wrong with London architecture?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Italy has become an ECB dependency

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The mysterious Covid productivity bonus

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

How Boris can end climate change

BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

No, Orbán is not the Chávez of the Right

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Will Biden look beyond the bobos?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Bankers are running the country

BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

Is Niall Ferguson planning to start a university?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Unesco is right to ditch Liverpool

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Don’t blame global warming on men

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

How Boris can survive Cummings

BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

The map that should terrify the West

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Boris Johnson’s dreadful ‘levelling-up’ speech

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Let’s leave Branson in space

BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

The Left is curiously silent on Cuba

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Italy’s young voters are drifting to the Right

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Why can’t anyone afford property? Blame central banks

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Brexit isn’t going to plan

BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

Sorry Extinction Rebellion, but nature is not progressive

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Canada’s heatwave is a vision of our future

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Labour deserves to lose Batley and Spen

BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

Meet COREPER, the secret committee at the heart of Europe

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Have we reached peak progressive?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

How Boris can save the Blue Wall

BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

Why is China pulling the plug on coal?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Can the Liberal Democrats become the party of the South?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Why we need the Great Reset

BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

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

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Would you pull the legs off a fly?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The woke don’t want to save the world

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

Will we accept human-animal hybrids?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Bangladesh: the world’s hidden success story

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Tim Martin’s Remainer enemies are missing the point

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Is Boris Johnson really a Catholic?

BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

Should conservatives offer sanctuary to dissidents of the Left?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Told you so: Charles Darwin next up for cancellation

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Is it time to sell your Bitcoin?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Boris owes it all to Theresa May

BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

Revealed: The most important political trend of our time

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

The end of woke is nigh

BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

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

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The psychic powers of the contemporary Left

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Is Christianity the anti-green religion?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Ten ways things could get worse for Labour

BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

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

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The Tories: the Doctor Who of political parties

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Labour needs to be humiliated

BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

Long live the Tartarian Empire!

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Don’t place science on a pedestal

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Beware the post-Covid surveillance state

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Westminster’s empty narcissism

BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

Should universities no platform flat-earthers?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The Lefties at the heart of government

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

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

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

More tea, Associate Archdeacon Transition Enabler?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Why we won’t cancel Yuri Gagarin

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Can Jennifer Lopez tempt you back to work?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The hypocrisy of David Cameron

BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

America’s disturbing death statistics

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Make the Church weird again

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Where Viktor Orbán leads, the EU follows

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

How Starmer can beat the Tories

BY Peter Franklin / 6 mins

We need memorials for murdered buildings

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

What is your ideological blindspot?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Brexiteers can’t deny Scots a vote

BY Peter Franklin / 6 mins

Are female leaders really so different?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

A British idiot’s guide to the Dutch election result

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Is Denmark creating an inverted-Apartheid?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Has the EU lost its mind?

BY Peter Franklin / 6 mins

Angela Merkel’s crumbling legacy

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

We can’t all take on the cistern and win

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

How long before beauty itself becomes taboo?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Robots: the new Republican dividing line

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The moral bankruptcy of cancel culture

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

How the EU humiliated itself

BY Peter Franklin / 6 mins

What’s spooking Rishi?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Mark Carney has some explaining to do

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Will Rishi Sunak survive this Budget?

BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

Where have all the workers gone?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Why Left and Right alike fall for junk economics

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Europe is waiting for its Napoleon

BY Peter Franklin / 7 mins

Why Labour can’t unite the tribes of Britain

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Why Keir Starmer should be worried about the Greens

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The death of the idle rich

BY Peter Franklin / 7 mins

Tory wars over Brexit are far from over

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

What Roger Hallam gets right — and wrong

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Why the cleverest man in the world was wrong

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Europe shows its true colours

BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

Does calling a man a pig perpetuate human supremacy?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Are we about to witness a cloning boom?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

A Moonshot Mission that misses its target

BY Peter Franklin / 7 mins

Brexit was not a ‘Whiggish’ project

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The basic flaw in British Government

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Does good taste excuse grand corruption?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

After Trump, conservatives must return to core values

BY Peter Franklin / 6 mins

Stop stat-shaming the public

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Donald Trump was America’s first post-modern President

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Does the Government still care about levelling up?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

There’s a world beyond China and the EU

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Liberals rarely defend liberalism

BY Peter Franklin / 6 mins

Ten ways this year could have been worse

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Have yourself a melancholy Christmas

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

It’s not just the Covid cranks spreading misinformation

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Why politicians shouldn’t get the vaccine first

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Has California’s day in the sun finished?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Restorations always fail

BY Peter Franklin / 8 mins

Without Brexit, things would have been much worse

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Now wokeness can make you sick

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The PM’s cabinet of puppets and placemen

BY Peter Franklin / 7 mins

Nottingham and the fall of civilisation

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Give Harry a break, he’s right about Covid

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Don’t mess with Kent

BY Peter Franklin / 7 mins

The case for aid should have been patriotic, not preachy

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Will Covid kill Silicon Valley? 

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

This is no time for austerity

BY Peter Franklin / 7 mins

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

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Brexit makes more sense than ever

BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

How do we bring down factory farming?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The real problem with Marcus Rashford’s property portfolio

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The missed opportunity of Dominic Cummings

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Liberals are the same, but populists are different

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The EU must not interfere in religion

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Yanis Varoufakis is right to be wary of Biden

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Just what we need: a mutant mink plague

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Was the virus engineered?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

There can be no winner now

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The twilight of the populists?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Centrists are the biggest threat to democracy

BY Peter Franklin / 6 mins

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

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Who are the real tribes of Britain?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Will Joe Biden come after Hungary?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Send helicopter money to the North

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

China’s war against the family

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

When did ‘sexual preference’ become politically incorrect?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The empty symbolism of the Nobel Prize for Economics

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Will $30 billion fix racial inequality?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The traffic wars speeding your way

BY Peter Franklin / 6 mins

Populist or progressive? Post-Covid politics will be neither

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Boris Johnson’s U-turn

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The Tory problem with poshness

BY Peter Franklin / 8 mins

Five reasons why populism is here to stay

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Ann Coulter for President?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Let’s recruit our politicians from overseas

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Is the mob coming for Charles Darwin?

BY Peter Franklin / 6 mins

Did the British invent anything?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

No Covid culture wars please, we’re British

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The unspoken truth about our permissive society

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Why fusionism failed

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

How liberals paid the price for breaking Britain

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The greatest stories never told

BY Peter Franklin / 7 mins

Watch out for the DIY surveillance state

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Did we (literally) talk ourselves into a pandemic?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Why the future of tech is trad not rad

BY Peter Franklin / 8 mins

Don’t educate litter louts, shame them!

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Britain: A tale of two retail giants

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

In defence of the garden fence

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Why Boris needs an heir apparent

BY Peter Franklin / 6 mins

Un-herding the animals of Animal Farm

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

‘Recession’ doesn’t begin to cover it

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Silly season comes to the Blue Tick brigade

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

How ID cards could set us free

BY Peter Franklin / 7 mins

Are British workers skiving-off?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

‘Rightwashing’ is the wrong approach to viewpoint diversity

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The coming struggle for space on our streets

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

It’s time the Tories got tough on landlords

BY Peter Franklin / 6 mins

The housing market that wouldn’t die

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Give Grant Shapps a break!

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Has lockdown broken old habits for good?

BY Peter Franklin / 9 mins

Is Tesla all that remains of real capitalism?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The hypocrisy of conserving Modernist architecture

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The myth of ‘Anglo-America’

BY Peter Franklin / 9 mins

Is Dua Lipa an Albanian nationalist?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

How the elephant lost its trunk

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

The collective benefit of mask-wearing

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The EU’s fiendish game of beggar my neighbour

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

How we make life easy for the modern slavers

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

In defence of working-class conservatism

BY Peter Franklin / 9 mins

Why isn’t the Creative Class more creative?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Don’t burn our money, Chancellor

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

How the establishment fell for eugenics

BY Peter Franklin / 8 mins

Would you have sex with an alien?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Chinese nuclear power in Britain? No thanks!

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

It’s Germany’s EU now

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Why won’t liberals defend liberalism?

BY Peter Franklin / 6 mins

France’s Green revolution

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Isaac Asimov’s dangerous idea

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The Age of Excuses is over

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

A city should be a home, not a playground

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Why heroes should wear masks

BY Peter Franklin / 7 mins

Why capitalise ‘Black’ but not ‘white’?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Arise, Lord Cummings of Barnard Castle!

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

What Boris actually said about purging the past

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

How to rescue Generation Rent

BY Peter Franklin / 8 mins

How did Covid come to Britain?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Why the Conservatives are right to ban evictions

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The inequality that fuels our dangerous times

BY Peter Franklin / 8 mins

Is the world facing a hysteretic shock?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

After Trump, will a more dangerous demagogue arrive?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Hyper-connectivity: Our fatal weakness

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Could coronavirus topple skyscrapers?

BY Peter Franklin / 7 mins

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

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

To revive the economy, tax Britain’s piggy banks

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The terrible threat of Wokenomics

BY Peter Franklin / 9 mins

Let’s put young Brits to work planting trees

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Will Covid mark the end of national sovereignty in Europe?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Should we let the aviation industry die?

BY Peter Franklin / 7 mins

After lockdown, prepare for the Big Move

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The new battle line in libertarian thought

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 7 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The FT’s shameful false equivalence on America and China

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Covid is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity

BY Peter Franklin / 9 mins

Not now please, Universal Basic Income enthusiasts

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Will the pandemic simplify our lives?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The Guardian’s paranoid anti-nationalism

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Our government must learn to fail

BY Peter Franklin / 8 mins

Should we all go Amish for the NHS?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The poison in the veins of the global economy

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Who will pay for this Covid catastrophe?

BY Peter Franklin / 7 mins

Is air pollution making the pandemic worse?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Joe Biden didn’t win, Bernie lost

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Why certain Right-wingers thirst for secret knowledge

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Has the FT really changed its mind on capitalism?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Corbyn, Trump and other freaks of history

BY Peter Franklin / 6 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The things we do for growth

BY Peter Franklin / 8 mins

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

BY Peter Franklin / < 1 min

Will coronavirus kill the shale revolution?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Why do these epidemics always start in China?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

David Cameron was right about one thing

BY Peter Franklin / < 1 min

Can your ideology cope with coronavirus?

BY Peter Franklin / 6 mins

The fatal flaw in the Job Retention Scheme

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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

BY Peter Franklin / < 1 min

Do we need a government of national unity?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Why had we never heard of Wuhan?

BY Peter Franklin / 9 mins

What on Earth are the Saudis playing at?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Welcome to ‘Conzervatism’

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Ten woke ways to shut down debate

BY Peter Franklin / 9 mins

Objectifying women: what’s the problem?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The toilet paper crisis is just bog-standard capitalism

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Are humans heading for the knacker’s yard?

BY Peter Franklin / 8 mins

Panicking about coronavirus will save lives

BY Peter Franklin / < 1 min

The end of the world for climate change hypocrites

BY Peter Franklin / < 1 min

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BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / < 1 min

What do post-liberals really want?

BY Peter Franklin / 7 mins

Why do ‘open’ liberals live in closed communities?

BY Peter Franklin / < 1 min

Should we give the cabinet an IQ test?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Bigger than Brexit: the new politics of climate change

BY Peter Franklin / 8 mins

What’s the point of sex?

BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Why shouldn’t modern buildings be beautiful?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Dominic Cummings must win the battle of the SpAds

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Why we should be worried about coronavirus

BY Peter Franklin / 7 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Boris is right — mercantilists are everywhere

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

In (partial) defence of Grace Blakeley

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 6 mins

Coronavirus leaves no room for cultural sensitivity

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The House of Lords should become the Future Chamber

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Labour must decentralise or die

BY Peter Franklin / < 1 min

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BY Peter Franklin / 6 mins

Tyler Cowen is pulling on a dangerous thread

BY Peter Franklin / < 1 min

When sensitive language stops helping

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Should we send the Lords up north?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 8 mins

The dark side of digital money

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The real reason why the high street is dying

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

Ursula von der London

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Here’s a better idea for reforming Whitehall

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Let’s re-do the Political Studies Association awards

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Greens need to starting talking solutions

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Three myths about social conservatives

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Tolkien’s guide to contemporary politics

BY Peter Franklin / 7 mins

2015 was a warm-up for the liberal Ragnarök

BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Let’s all go back to the year 2000

BY Peter Franklin / 6 mins

Don’t cancel the Corbynites

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

Bernie Sanders is America’s magic grandpa

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

How we ruined election campaigns

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Has the FT turned red?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

Who is the world’s most typical person?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

To boldly go? You first, Mr Bezos

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 6 mins

How old is too old in politics?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Should we have just waited for the EU to die?

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

Netflix is like food – more doesn’t mean better

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Is the British jobs miracle fake news?

BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Let the state demolish bad new buildings

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Deadlocked Democracy

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / < 1 min

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BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 8 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 6 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / < 1 min

The real reason why people hate vegans

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 6 mins

WeWork tells us what works in the wider economy

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

There’s no such thing as Left versus Right

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

John Simpson’s two thirds idea is half-baked

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / < 1 min

There is nothing wrong with neoliberalism… as a word

BY Peter Franklin / < 1 min

Could free cash fix the economy?

BY Peter Franklin / 8 mins

Late Capitalism? Don’t you believe it.

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Why would anyone buy a negative yield bond?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Tax evading billionaires will put Warren in the White House

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

What if Germany’s economy toppled?

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Why does everyone hate inheritance tax?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

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

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

How much trouble is the economy in?

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 6 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

Greta Thunberg, post-liberal prophet

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Meanwhile in America… President Yang?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The letter of the law versus the spirit of the constitution

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 6 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / < 1 min

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BY Peter Franklin / < 1 min

We aren’t getting the best from our brains

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

What’s wrong with the weekend news?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Calm down, ‘deepfake’ news is not here yet

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Don’t let the liberals write our constitution

BY Peter Franklin / 6 mins

‘Left-behind’ communities are closer than you think

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Why is the world going blind?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The schools that Britain forgot

BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Toryism is not conservatism

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

Is this a long-term age of discord?

BY Peter Franklin / < 1 min

East Germany is fertile hunting ground for populists

BY Peter Franklin / < 1 min

There’s no such thing as factory farming

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

The global economy has gone mad

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

What’s making Millennials so lonely?

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

Boris’s stimulus stunt

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

Big Bezos is watching you

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 6 mins

The latest reason to scrap HS2

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

Boris should make Britain beautiful again

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 7 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

A ray of hope for a burning world

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

Could Boris solve the housing crisis?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 8 mins

Elon Musk’s extra-terrestrial threat

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 6 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

China’s great global game

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

The truth behind Trump’s victory

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

The problem with political journalism

BY Peter Franklin / 7 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Sod the singularity

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

The liberals are falling into Putin’s trap

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

The inevitability of debt

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

Why is Zuckerberg inventing a currency?

BY Peter Franklin / 6 mins

Is too much money a bad thing?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 7 mins

In praise of media scare stories

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Are you ready for ‘fully automated luxury communism’?

BY Peter Franklin / 7 mins

How AI will terminate us

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

How long will the Brexit Party last?

BY Peter Franklin / 6 mins

Is this the world’s worst housing project?

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

How to beat the politics of punishment

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

York was destined to be capital

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

What’s GoT got to do with office politics?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Why Britain needs a De Gaulle

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

Will the EU become an empire?

BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

Ten visitors more terrible than Trump

BY Peter Franklin / 6 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

Will the internet reawaken the dead?

BY Peter Franklin / 6 mins

Which experts should we trust?

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

You can keep your free money

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

Could Joe Biden blow our minds?

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

Could we drag drivers from their cars?

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

In search of the little green men

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

Let’s close down open-plan offices

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Could a rentquake topple Trump?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Does Britain need a post-liberal party?

BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

The most important policy we don’t talk about

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

How much do globalists really value diversity?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

The hideous spread of ‘spreadsheet architecture’

BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

Who will ride the Green wave?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Ten precedents for a compromise Brexit

BY Peter Franklin / 9 mins

Crony capitalism is empowering the Left

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

Why aren’t the Tories talking about economics?

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

Tolkien’s guide to contemporary politics

BY Peter Franklin / 7 mins

Does a big society need a Big God?

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

To revive our cities we must set them free

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

What cost convenience?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

What’s really to blame for the opioid crisis?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Call yourself post-liberal?

BY Peter Franklin / 7 mins

Robots will kill us with kindness

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

Why low interest rates poison the economy

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

Why middle England became middle class

BY Peter Franklin / 7 mins

The disruptive promise of internet voting

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

What’s the point of central government?

BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

Does Germany have an answer to the housing crisis?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Who benefits from the Uberised economy?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Why is French democracy so prone to violence?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Britain’s Brexit paralysis

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

The fall of social democracy

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

The political significance of beards

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Down and out in the Golden State

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Who’s most intolerant in America?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

It’s time to overhaul economic policy

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

Just how mad is the Green New Deal?

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Should we pity the rich?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

The monopolists’ manifesto

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

Will Spain’s working poor take revenge?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

How to make money from a housing crisis

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Are we blinded by mathematics?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

The dead centre of political punditry

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

What has ‘flyover country’ got to complain about?

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

The truth about inflation

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

Will the NHS hold our DNA hostage?

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

Why high-rise farms could save the world

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Do you know where money really comes from?

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

You are the next tech revolution

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

How to solve the housing crisis

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

The consequences of cosy AI collusion

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

The irrelevant debate over the top rate of tax

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Is it all over for the big tech companies?

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

What cost your free lunch?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Not a population bomb, more a damp squib

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

The bitter truth about Millennial burnout

BY Peter Franklin / 8 mins

What makes languages legitimate?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Could your neighbour be spying on you?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Capitalism: where did it all go wrong?

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

This demographic catastrophe will hit us all

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Why ‘peak death’ won’t solve the housing crisis

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

No, computers haven’t learned how to cheat

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

A path towards Tory detoxification

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Let’s replace the Lords with a House of Lobbyists

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

A Christian society should be post-liberal not anti-liberal

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

The world’s most successful* people get enough sleep

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 27 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 6 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 6 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 7 mins

The Year UnPacked: 30 to 21

BY Peter Franklin / 6 mins

The Year UnPacked: 40 to 31

BY Peter Franklin / 6 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 6 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 8 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Green taxes don’t have to hurt the yellow jackets

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

How gamification makes losers of us all

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Two wheels good; four wheels bad

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

China: not just an economic superpower

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 7 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Prepare to be microchipped

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

The truth about GDP figures

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Global English is a force for division – not unity

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

The forgotten tragedies of the First World War

BY Peter Franklin / 7 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Why non-voters matter most

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

Big Tech’s big power grab

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 7 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Boomer populism is a warning from the future

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 7 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Lies, damned lies and energy statistics

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 6 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

America: the birth of two nations

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 6 mins

Letting the gene genie out of the bottle

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Ten vested interests the Tories failed to tackle

BY Peter Franklin / 7 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Should we commit mosquito genocide?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Beware keep fit totalitarianism

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Why doesn’t geography get the respect it deserves?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

The absurdity of legalising drugs

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

What’s the point of the Lib Dems?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Trumpism: America’s new religion

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Ten years after the crash, we should still be terrified

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Our ‘open’ society has shut the door on shared spaces

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Coercive federalism has doomed the EU

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

In theory, you’re a racist

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

The brutal apartheid of the French banlieues

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Does liberalism need global conflict in order to thrive?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

The permanent punishment of the Greek people

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 9 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

The next tech revolution – you won’t believe your eyes!

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

America’s other drug epidemic

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Fascism, architecture and Donald Trump

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

What’s the point of the humanities?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The deeper meaning of Open and Closed

BY Peter Franklin / 12 mins

The rise and rise of Open and Closed

BY Peter Franklin / 9 mins

Open vs Closed: The rise and fall of Left and Right

BY Peter Franklin / 10 mins

The battle for Britain’s countryside – the other Brexit debate

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

Why air-conditioning is making us hotter

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

China: the hype vs the reality

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Platform cooperativism – an alternative to technopoly

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Jordan Peterson for President (yes, I know)

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Why don’t we talk about television anymore?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

The great British cock-up: ten times the state got it catastrophically wrong

BY Peter Franklin / 9 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

If you’re reading this on the train to work, go home!

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 5 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

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BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

How Thatcher’s heirs can revive popular capitalism

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The bureaucratic fracturing of government can destroy lives

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

How to introduce a Land Value Tax tactfully

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Will China overtake America in a driverless car?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

What will ‘deep fake’ imagery do to politics?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Are centrists a threat to democracy?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

What if we were to lose the last ten years of technological progress?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Flyover France – the forgotten frontier

BY Peter Franklin / 7 mins

‘Unconscious bias training’ doesn’t work

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Could the Chinese Communist Party win votes in the West?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Chained to a lunatic: the shocking secret at the heart of politics

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Should the rich be allowed to destroy their own wealth?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Free speech, blasphemy and structural discrimination

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The most influential religion you’ve never heard of

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

The tragedy of the ‘gammons’

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Chinese capital flows – the ‘dragon energy’ of globalisation

BY Peter Franklin / 6 mins

What’s the point of the Intellectual Dark Web?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Why trade deals are murder

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Why rationing air travel is the same thing as taxing people out of the skies

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

China is railroading its exports through Europe – literally

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Vanilla liberalism is past its sell-by date

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Alexa, how do we disrupt the tech lords?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Is there anything that Jordan Peterson can’t disrupt?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

The worse our politicians get, the more we indulge them

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

From Cultural Revolution to cultural appropriation: a brief history of that dress

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Should we be bowing to social media?

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

We must stop tolerating terrible architecture

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Blue Labour versus the Accelerationists: Round Two

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

The three-way relationship that brought about Brexit and Trump

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

And finally: the good news from flyover county

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

You wait ages for an electric bus, and then three hundred thousand turn up

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Whatever happened to the human clones?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Why does a new middle-of-the-road party have to be a liberal one?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Who’s that watching your every move? Don’t worry, it’s only everyone…

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

More community land trusts could transform the housing debate

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

Have our scientists run out of steam?

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Don’t believe what those idiots are telling you about echo chambers

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Brexit Britain must take back control of its countryside

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

To close the gender pay-gap we need a family-friendly work culture

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

How online retailers are incentivised to wreck our roads

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

U OK Hun(gary)?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Washington DC vs Silicon Valley: America’s Athens and Sparta

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

The east is well-read: Chinese scholars know more about us than we do about them

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

A cashless society could curb criminals – but also our freedom

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

“Sneckdowns” and desire lines: A parable for the big data age

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Russia and China get cosy over energy supplies

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Will big tech bankrupt the banks?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

The cost of property may slowly kill Silicon Valley – but a Land Value Tax might give it new life

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

In the race to become the AI superpower, Europe is losing to China and America

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Radical leftwingers must recognise ‘legitimate concerns’ or they’ll cause widespread destruction

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

New evidence on race and inequality in America

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Decarbonising the economy: now for the hard bit

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Who wants to buy the products of ‘Beijing Analytica’? Many of us (probably).

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

TV can’t ignore flyover country – but nor can it look it in the eye

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

Don’t monkey around with the borders of humanity

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Singapore shows there’s more than one way of doing capitalism

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Why we need a moratorium on manned spaceflight

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

You’ll never guess which is the most densely populated country in Europe

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Communist China’s class-ridden society

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The post-work society is already here

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

Italy versus the EU establishment: now who’s being irresponsible?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Self-driving cars are a chance to rehumanise our streets

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Why ‘enough’ is the most dangerous word in economics

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Advanced economies shouldn’t depend on cheap labour

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Pinkerism, populism and progressophobia

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Thirty-somethings need home ownership options – and fast

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

How Dr Internet got smarter than the real thing

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The threat of ‘fake news’ isn’t fake, but nor is it new

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

How the Left destroyed its voter base

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Screen addiction has killed the bookworm

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Accelerationism, Blue Labour and the future of work

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Proof that a global city can build enough new housing

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The idea that liberals aren’t represented by the party system is the opposite of the truth

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Free minds: Jane Jacobs, a fearless foe of all things prefabricated

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

How small bureaucratic hurdles can be big barriers for the poor

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

British universities should disrupt the US model of gated access to higher education

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

The ideological battle over classroom seating arrangements

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Trump, truckers and the automation paradox: robots could lead to labour shortages

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Why are politicians ignoring what housing markets are telling them?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

The innovation game: Can China regain its lead over the West?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Loss of community places a heavy burden on young families

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Is Amazon’s attempt to disrupt the healthcare industry heroic or villainous?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

How common is ‘digital self-harm’ and what explains it?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Driverless cars are on a collision course with the property market

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Is America a failed state? Or is liberalism a failed ideology?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Never mind UBI (Universal Basic Income), what we need is UBV (Universal Basic Vegetables)

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

What government can do about the winner-takes-all economy

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

New gene editing techniques could multiply the dangers of GMOs

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Why wealth taxes are a political graveyard

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

Great Britain: Not in fact an island of greedy, selfish xenophobes

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

One industry where capitalism is going in the right direction

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Geoengineering: another fine mess not to get into

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Europe no longer exists – our future is Eurasian

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

What does the ‘charging elephant’ – also known as Amazon – want? Only everything (and beware of getting in its way)

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Why religion is more important in China than in the West

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

The digital revolution: a disaster for progressives and conservatives alike

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Rogue landlords are a poor solution to the housing crisis

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Don’t sweat the small stuff, or why the ‘New Optimists’ are only half right

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Why do some countries have strong populist movements but not others?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Only lateral thinking can save us from economic stagnation

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

What the story of early capitalism can teach us about ‘late capitalism’

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

If governments do raise taxes on wealth, what should be done with the revenues?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Trees or farmland? ‘Agroforestry’ could mean nations like Britain would not have to choose

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

The debate over immigration ignores half the issue

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

How Brexit Britain could help China build a new world

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Is there really someone for everyone? Not if we undermine monogamy and a balanced gender ratio

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Higher education should be making a bigger difference

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

It’s official, we really are dumbing down

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

We need a richer conversation about wealth inequality

BY Peter Franklin / 4 mins

Brexit isn’t Europe’s biggest challenge, but economic inequality between east and west

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

If you want people to make more babies, build more houses

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

If we want a more productive economy, we must let our cities grow

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Why Sunday closing reveals the deepest divide in politics

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

How to save your career from the march of the robots

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Environmentally-friendly farming doesn’t have to be technologically backward

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Pro-Trump intellectuals – yes, they do exist

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Does capitalism have an answer to ‘fully automated luxury communism’?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

What you need to learn about machine learning

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Marriage is a uniquely stabilising force: are liberals finally getting the message?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Jeremy Corbyn is right: a ‘post-neoliberal world order’ is coming (whatever that means)

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

China’s taking a quantum leap in its tech rivalry with the West

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Return of the genetically modified rats

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Around the world, our precariously-balanced household finances need salvation

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Are ‘cyberslackers’ destroying the economy? 

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Will Elon Musk drive a truck through the oil industry?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Meghan Markle (so I get your attention!)… and Sufi Islam and the dangers of religious illiteracy

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

To boost productivity, just do what Henry VIII did

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

The news IS covering Trump’s circus. It’s not covering his administration particularly well.

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Why making poor people richer can push up the poverty rate

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

A plan to rid New Zealand of rats and other predatory mammals would spread across the world…

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

The argument that robots won’t take our jobs isn’t all that reassuring

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Wanted: a government willing to perform experiments on us

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Putin has new friends in the West. But what have his interventions cost him?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

We’ve been underestimating the genetic differences between men and women

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Fighting behind closed doors is stifling your kids’ creativity

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

The full effects of automation will be way more disruptive than globalisation

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Why religion retains its relevance – even when belief in God wanes

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Will driverless cars save our cities, or ruin them?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Granting planning permission is better for the economy than printing money

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Why the price of oil has been so hard to predict – and why that might change

BY Peter Franklin / 9 mins

‘Alexa, are you turning my kid into a brat?’

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

The unhappy homes that helped put Trump in the White House

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

China’s sinister Social Credit System

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Robots are coming for our low-skilled jobs. They’re coming even quicker for our skilled jobs.

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

School vouchers were supposed to revolutionise educational choice. So did they?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Click here for details on a free trip across America!

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Enough said: How social media is turning young people off free speech

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Building a wall in the sky might help climate change. It might also create new problems

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Loosening the Metropolitan Green Belt would make Britain fat

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

We’re going to ban human-operated cars. Yes, all of them.

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Project Loon is the upside of Google’s increasingly global reach

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

It’s not simply low income that ends marriages. It’s economic instability.

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Why more people die as the economy grows

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

How to eat from the magic money tree (which happens to have the same initials as ‘modern monetary theory’)

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

The new political correctness: not a fad, but a deep cultural shift

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Help the world’s poorest people by giving them secure rights to their land

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Many in the tech industry are avoiding their products. Should we do the same?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

The opioid death toll: a real American horror story

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

In the future we won’t have to work and the state will give us money… it’ll be awful

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Tech companies need their own tax regime – but not one of their choosing

BY Peter Franklin / 2 mins

Yimby-ism could transform the landscape(s)

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

No need to buy. Once cars are fully automated, they’ll all be taxis anyway

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Will we die from being kinless?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

It won’t be computers that kill us. It’ll be the software

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Westminster’s broken: To rescue our British parliament, establish an English parliament

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

The enemies of renewable energy have lost – they should be delighted

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

It’s not just Catalonia: Who has the right to break away?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins

Was it whiteness that won it for Trump?

BY Peter Franklin / 3 mins