Peter Franklin

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

@peterfranklin_

German irresponsibility threatens Europe

05 Dec 2018

How we’re setting a generation up to fail

04 Dec 2018

The revenge of the Segway

03 Dec 2018

Can China control its Protestants?

30 Nov 2018

Why we need a writer to run the country

29 Nov 2018

Who will save us from the vampire capitalists?

28 Nov 2018

Why we need to concentrate on science

27 Nov 2018

Who’s to blame for the ‘boomerang’ generation?

26 Nov 2018

Two wheels good; four wheels bad

23 Nov 2018

China: not just an economic superpower

22 Nov 2018

The ugly truth behind Amazon’s beauty contest

21 Nov 2018

The surprising losers of the Great Recession

20 Nov 2018

Prepare to be microchipped

19 Nov 2018

The truth about GDP figures

16 Nov 2018

Could Generation X save the world?

15 Nov 2018

How irresponsible Merkel let populism thrive

13 Nov 2018

Should you police your inner ideologue?

12 Nov 2018

Global English is a force for division – not unity

09 Nov 2018

Who are the the cyber-nannies coming for?

08 Nov 2018

The forgotten tragedies of the First World War

07 Nov 2018

Could Britain be about to power share with Belgium?

06 Nov 2018

Why non-voters matter most

05 Nov 2018

Big Tech’s big power grab

02 Nov 2018

One dead animal is an online sensation, a million is a statistic

01 Nov 2018

How the Eurozone could avert disaster

31 Oct 2018

Don’t let government drug the water supply

30 Oct 2018

Boomer populism is a warning from the future

29 Oct 2018

The mystery of the disappearing pay rise

26 Oct 2018

Britain needs less speculation, not a smaller financial sector

25 Oct 2018

Five reasons why populism isn’t up to the job

24 Oct 2018

The dark side of China’s Social Credit System

22 Oct 2018

Elizabeth Warren should have checked her privilege

19 Oct 2018

Lies, damned lies and energy statistics

18 Oct 2018

Why we must suppress technological progress

17 Oct 2018

Why are we playing games with our privacy?

16 Oct 2018

Why are woke liberals such enemies of the past?

15 Oct 2018

What the Right gets wrong when the Left goes nuts

12 Oct 2018

America: the birth of two nations

11 Oct 2018

Who’s changing the political rules?

10 Oct 2018

Letting the gene genie out of the bottle

09 Oct 2018

Who’ll have the guts to ban cars from our cities?

08 Oct 2018

How robots could set the developing world free

05 Oct 2018

Ten vested interests the Tories failed to tackle

04 Oct 2018

Blazing Arizona: why adapting to climate change is deeply immoral

03 Oct 2018

What do Sheffield and Paris have in common?

02 Oct 2018

Why home ownership is the real key to progress

01 Oct 2018

Should we commit mosquito genocide?

28 Sep 2018

Beware keep fit totalitarianism

27 Sep 2018

Will the Chinese economy go the way of the USSR’s?

26 Sep 2018

Why doesn’t geography get the respect it deserves?

25 Sep 2018

The absurdity of legalising drugs

24 Sep 2018

What’s the ideal environment for the abuse of power?

21 Sep 2018

What’s the point of the Lib Dems?

20 Sep 2018

Trumpism: America’s new religion

19 Sep 2018

Ten years after the crash, we should still be terrified

18 Sep 2018

Could Trump keep tweeting for ever?

17 Sep 2018

Are low-paid workers unskilled or just undervalued?

13 Sep 2018

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

12 Sep 2018

Coercive federalism has doomed the EU

11 Sep 2018

Facial recognition systems will imprison us all

10 Sep 2018

In theory, you’re a racist

07 Sep 2018

The brutal apartheid of the French banlieues

06 Sep 2018

How sex and drugs took their toll on 21st-century America

05 Sep 2018

Would Frank Field fit in? The test we should apply to any new party

04 Sep 2018

How driverless cars could make streets safer

03 Sep 2018

If you’re pro-immigration you can’t be anti-development

31 Aug 2018

Does liberalism need global conflict in order to thrive?

30 Aug 2018

Why it’s time to panic about kids and smartphones

29 Aug 2018

The permanent punishment of the Greek people

28 Aug 2018

The West divided: Populism versus liberalism in the 21st century

24 Aug 2018

Why does the Left hate Tolkien?

21 Aug 2018

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

20 Aug 2018

How a land value tax could speed up the regeneration of our cities

17 Aug 2018

Who deserves the blame for ‘bargain basement’ Britain?

16 Aug 2018

How (some) economists finally caught up with financial reality

15 Aug 2018

How the robots of the underworld could turn your life upside down

14 Aug 2018

Do conservatives have a fundamental problem with diversity?

13 Aug 2018

In the age of Big Data, politicians should not believe their eyes

10 Aug 2018

America’s other drug epidemic

09 Aug 2018

Fascism, architecture and Donald Trump

08 Aug 2018

What’s the point of the humanities?

06 Aug 2018

How low-paying businesses profit from us all

06 Aug 2018

The deeper meaning of Open and Closed

03 Aug 2018

The rise and rise of Open and Closed

01 Aug 2018

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

31 Jul 2018

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

30 Jul 2018

A disturbing post-script to the royal wedding

27 Jul 2018

Why air-conditioning is making us hotter

25 Jul 2018

China: the hype vs the reality

23 Jul 2018

How new technology could topple the tech giants

19 Jul 2018

One way to bypass a driverless future

18 Jul 2018

Boo! Why populists keep surprising liberals

17 Jul 2018

Full employment, decent pay and affordable housing: choose two

13 Jul 2018

Is there anyone else out there?

12 Jul 2018

Platform cooperativism – an alternative to technopoly

10 Jul 2018

The false promise of the vertical city

09 Jul 2018

How the liberals invented Donald Trump

06 Jul 2018

When communities take on the tech lords and win

05 Jul 2018

Would you trust a robot to build your house?

04 Jul 2018