Peter Franklin

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

@peterfranklin_

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

Facebook, Jesus and the serpent of social media

11 Sep 2017

Silicon Valley goes hypersocialist (as long as they don’t have to pay for it)

08 Sep 2017

There’s no need to fear a robot taking your job – not if you become one yourself

07 Sep 2017

How to create a drug epidemic

06 Sep 2017

How the radical left has it both ways on Brexit

05 Sep 2017

Massively dangerous technologies that could destroy us all: How about no?

04 Sep 2017

Is America facing its ‘Suez moment’?

01 Sep 2017

How smartphones make our young people unhappy

31 Aug 2017

The hermit generation: The young aren’t rebelling against society, but hiding from it

30 Aug 2017

How groupthink distorts economic policy and puts downward pressure on wages

25 Aug 2017

The unpalatable truth about socialised medicine

24 Aug 2017

Economists are clueless about the demographic disaster awaiting the global economy

22 Aug 2017

To get Britain moving again we must get Britain moving house

21 Aug 2017

Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your food!

18 Aug 2017

Control mass immigration? Europe can’t even control mass tourism

17 Aug 2017

Wanted: some serious conservatism in the media

16 Aug 2017

How ‘speech codes’ discriminate against vulnerable people

15 Aug 2017

Human progress is real but so is our vulnerability… because the same tech drives both

14 Aug 2017

Artificial intelligence without the hype

11 Aug 2017

Lessons from the first attempt at a European union

06 Aug 2017

Aircraft carriers would be no match for a robot pigeon

04 Aug 2017

Is capitalism ‘productive’ or a city ‘diverse’ if they don’t leave room for children?

02 Aug 2017

How racist is your computer?

01 Aug 2017

To solve the housing crisis we must stop the speculators

01 Aug 2017

How your ‘digital twin’ could get you into trouble

31 Jul 2017

How the decline of American Christianity helps Donald Trump

28 Jul 2017

Are you on CRISPR? You soon will be…

24 Jul 2017

The myth about the sovereignty myth

23 Jul 2017

Adultery greater among older Americans than young – and is the crash the reason?

22 Jul 2017

Beneath the cladding: Why did Britain build so many tower blocks?

22 Jul 2017

Believe in open borders and taxing wealth? Good luck!

18 Jul 2017

Get ready for Prime Minister Corbyn… and President Sanders…

16 Jul 2017