Peter Franklin

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

@peterfranklin_

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

08 Feb 2018

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

07 Feb 2018

New gene editing techniques could multiply the dangers of GMOs

06 Feb 2018

Why wealth taxes are a political graveyard

06 Feb 2018

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

05 Feb 2018

One industry where capitalism is going in the right direction

02 Feb 2018

Geoengineering: another fine mess not to get into

01 Feb 2018

Europe no longer exists – our future is Eurasian

31 Jan 2018

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

30 Jan 2018

Why religion is more important in China than in the West

29 Jan 2018

The digital revolution: a disaster for progressives and conservatives alike

26 Jan 2018

Rogue landlords are a poor solution to the housing crisis

25 Jan 2018

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

24 Jan 2018

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

23 Jan 2018

Only lateral thinking can save us from economic stagnation

22 Jan 2018

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

19 Jan 2018

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

18 Jan 2018

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

17 Jan 2018

The debate over immigration ignores half the issue

16 Jan 2018

How Brexit Britain could help China build a new world

15 Jan 2018

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

12 Jan 2018

Higher education should be making a bigger difference

11 Jan 2018

It’s official, we really are dumbing down

10 Jan 2018

We need a richer conversation about wealth inequality

09 Jan 2018

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

08 Jan 2018

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

22 Dec 2017

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

21 Dec 2017

Why Sunday closing reveals the deepest divide in politics

20 Dec 2017

How to save your career from the march of the robots

19 Dec 2017

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

18 Dec 2017

Pro-Trump intellectuals – yes, they do exist

15 Dec 2017

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

14 Dec 2017

What you need to learn about machine learning

13 Dec 2017

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

12 Dec 2017

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

11 Dec 2017

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

08 Dec 2017

Return of the genetically modified rats

07 Dec 2017

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

06 Dec 2017

Are ‘cyberslackers’ destroying the economy?

05 Dec 2017

Will Elon Musk drive a truck through the oil industry?

04 Dec 2017

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

01 Dec 2017

To boost productivity, just do what Henry VIII did

30 Nov 2017

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

29 Nov 2017

Why making poor people richer can push up the poverty rate

28 Nov 2017

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

27 Nov 2017

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

24 Nov 2017

Wanted: a government willing to perform experiments on us

23 Nov 2017

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

22 Nov 2017

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

21 Nov 2017

Fighting behind closed doors is stifling your kids’ creativity

20 Nov 2017

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

17 Nov 2017

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

16 Nov 2017

Will driverless cars save our cities, or ruin them?

15 Nov 2017

Granting planning permission is better for the economy than printing money

14 Nov 2017

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

13 Nov 2017

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

13 Nov 2017

The unhappy homes that helped put Trump in the White House

10 Nov 2017

China’s sinister Social Credit System

09 Nov 2017

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

08 Nov 2017

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

07 Nov 2017

Click here for details on a free trip across America!

06 Nov 2017

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

03 Nov 2017

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

02 Nov 2017

Loosening the Metropolitan Green Belt would make Britain fat

01 Nov 2017

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

31 Oct 2017

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

30 Oct 2017

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

27 Oct 2017

Why more people die as the economy grows

26 Oct 2017

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

25 Oct 2017

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

24 Oct 2017

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

23 Oct 2017

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

20 Oct 2017

The opioid death toll: a real American horror story

19 Oct 2017

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

18 Oct 2017

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

17 Oct 2017

Yimby-ism could transform the landscape(s)

16 Oct 2017

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

13 Oct 2017

Will we die from being kinless?

12 Oct 2017

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

11 Oct 2017

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

10 Oct 2017

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

09 Oct 2017

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

06 Oct 2017

Was it whiteness that won it for Trump?

05 Oct 2017

Forget politics: To save conservative values, fund universities instead

04 Oct 2017

Taxing robots: a 20th century solution to a 21st century problem

03 Oct 2017

Kiss your privacy goodbye – CCTV is just the beginning

02 Oct 2017

The power of political storytelling: A response to George Monbiot (part two)

29 Sep 2017

The power of political storytelling: A response to George Monbiot (part one)

28 Sep 2017

Watch out, tech companies – your free pass is about to expire!

27 Sep 2017

We won’t fix capitalism until economists fix their broken theories

25 Sep 2017

The new world order: safe for markets, but not democracy

22 Sep 2017

Easy money: How have the central bankers got away with it?

21 Sep 2017

The human staplers of Silicon Valley

20 Sep 2017

Epidemics of addiction may be created by deliberate supply not uncontrollable demand

19 Sep 2017

How cheap labour undermines economic productivity

18 Sep 2017

Rampant Germanophilia merits closer examination

15 Sep 2017

The political centre is not where liberals think it is

14 Sep 2017

Could genetically selective societies breed themselves into crippling uniformity?

13 Sep 2017

You don’t have to be old and uneducated to be an extremist

12 Sep 2017