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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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

Jordan Peterson for President (yes, I know)

03 Jul 2018

Are traffic lights really “un-Conservative”?

02 Jul 2018

What’s so monstrous about Ayn Rand?

27 Jun 2018

Why don’t we talk about television anymore?

25 Jun 2018

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

22 Jun 2018

An expensive house is no place for a child

21 Jun 2018

The French ‘internet’ – when state innovation goes wrong

20 Jun 2018

The Amish: America’s most sophisticated users of technology

19 Jun 2018

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

18 Jun 2018

Do you have to be rich not to have a smartphone?

15 Jun 2018

June 23rd – an anniversary for George Osborne to celebrate!

14 Jun 2018

What the Amish and the Shakers can teach us about demographics

13 Jun 2018

Why much of genetic engineering remains a mystery

12 Jun 2018

Is Europe on the brink of a new Thirty Years’ War?

11 Jun 2018

How Thatcher’s heirs can revive popular capitalism

08 Jun 2018

The bureaucratic fracturing of government can destroy lives

07 Jun 2018

How to introduce a Land Value Tax tactfully

06 Jun 2018

Will China overtake America in a driverless car?

05 Jun 2018

What will ‘deep fake’ imagery do to politics?

04 Jun 2018

Are centrists a threat to democracy?

01 Jun 2018

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

31 May 2018

Flyover France – the forgotten frontier

30 May 2018

‘Unconscious bias training’ doesn’t work

29 May 2018

Could the Chinese Communist Party win votes in the West?

26 May 2018

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

25 May 2018

Should the rich be allowed to destroy their own wealth?

23 May 2018

Free speech, blasphemy and structural discrimination

22 May 2018

The most influential religion you’ve never heard of

21 May 2018

The tragedy of the ‘gammons’

18 May 2018

Chinese capital flows – the ‘dragon energy’ of globalisation

17 May 2018

What’s the point of the Intellectual Dark Web?

17 May 2018

Why trade deals are murder

16 May 2018

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

15 May 2018

China is railroading its exports through Europe – literally

14 May 2018

Vanilla liberalism is past its sell-by date

11 May 2018

Alexa, how do we disrupt the tech lords?

10 May 2018

Is there anything that Jordan Peterson can’t disrupt?

09 May 2018

The worse our politicians get, the more we indulge them

08 May 2018

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

04 May 2018

Should we be bowing to social media?

03 May 2018

We must stop tolerating terrible architecture

02 May 2018

Blue Labour versus the Accelerationists: Round Two

01 May 2018

The three-way relationship that brought about Brexit and Trump

30 Apr 2018

And finally: the good news from flyover county

27 Apr 2018

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

26 Apr 2018

Whatever happened to the human clones?

25 Apr 2018

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

24 Apr 2018

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

23 Apr 2018

More community land trusts could transform the housing debate

20 Apr 2018

Have our scientists run out of steam?

19 Apr 2018

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

18 Apr 2018

Brexit Britain must take back control of its countryside

17 Apr 2018

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

16 Apr 2018

How online retailers are incentivised to wreck our roads

13 Apr 2018

U OK Hun(gary)?

12 Apr 2018

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

11 Apr 2018

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

10 Apr 2018

A cashless society could curb criminals – but also our freedom

09 Apr 2018

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

06 Apr 2018

Russia and China get cosy over energy supplies

05 Apr 2018

Will big tech bankrupt the banks?

04 Apr 2018

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

03 Apr 2018

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

29 Mar 2018

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

28 Mar 2018

New evidence on race and inequality in America

27 Mar 2018

Decarbonising the economy: now for the hard bit

26 Mar 2018

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

23 Mar 2018

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

22 Mar 2018

Don’t monkey around with the borders of humanity

21 Mar 2018

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

21 Mar 2018

Why we need a moratorium on manned spaceflight

20 Mar 2018

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

19 Mar 2018

Communist China’s class-ridden society

16 Mar 2018

The post-work society is already here

15 Mar 2018

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

14 Mar 2018

Self-driving cars are a chance to rehumanise our streets

13 Mar 2018

Why ‘enough’ is the most dangerous word in economics

12 Mar 2018

Advanced economies shouldn’t depend on cheap labour

09 Mar 2018

Pinkerism, populism and progressophobia

08 Mar 2018

Thirty-somethings need home ownership options – and fast

07 Mar 2018

How Dr Internet got smarter than the real thing

06 Mar 2018

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

05 Mar 2018

How the Left destroyed its voter base

02 Mar 2018

Screen addiction has killed the bookworm

01 Mar 2018

Accelerationism, Blue Labour and the future of work

28 Feb 2018

Proof that a global city can build enough new housing

27 Feb 2018

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

26 Feb 2018

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

25 Feb 2018

How small bureaucratic hurdles can be big barriers for the poor

23 Feb 2018

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

22 Feb 2018

The ideological battle over classroom seating arrangements

21 Feb 2018

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

20 Feb 2018