Peter Franklin

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

Canada is buckling under record immigration

19 Jan 2024

The Tory meltdown could be even worse than predicted

15 Jan 2024

The Tories are heading for their worst ever result

11 Jan 2024

Will Quality Street lead to a communist revolution?

08 Jan 2024

Banning the AfD will backfire

04 Jan 2024

Five ‘grey swan’ possibilities for 2024

01 Jan 2024

Why is the American Right obsessed with UFOs?

28 Dec 2023

All I want for Christmas is a rise in birth rates

24 Dec 2023

The EU is heading for a fiscal showdown

18 Dec 2023

How an Elon Musk university could disrupt academia

15 Dec 2023

It’s too soon to topple Rishi Sunak

11 Dec 2023

The EU is falling behind China

07 Dec 2023

Can Geert Wilders defeat the Dutch establishment?

05 Dec 2023

How to avoid South Korea’s demographic disaster

01 Dec 2023

China’s debt crisis is getting worse

27 Nov 2023

The EU has voted for a superstate

23 Nov 2023

Are the Dutch set for a sharp turn to the Right?

21 Nov 2023

Meet the five factions of the Tory Right

17 Nov 2023

Without Braverman, which way will Sunak go on the ECHR?

13 Nov 2023

Beware the European Digital Identity

10 Nov 2023

Nadine Dorries is half-right about the secret Tory cabal

06 Nov 2023

What Elon Musk can teach Rishi Sunak

01 Nov 2023

Rishi Sunak should delay the election for as long as possible

26 Oct 2023

Do Irish people have white privilege?

24 Oct 2023

Westminster conformism is worse than Dominic Cummings thinks

21 Oct 2023

Australia’s anti-democratic Voice campaign deserved to lose

16 Oct 2023

Sam Bankman-Fried is wrong about Shakespeare

10 Oct 2023

Is the EU about to turn on Ireland?

06 Oct 2023

The Conservatives should ignore Liz Truss’s latest theory

02 Oct 2023

Drone technology is reinventing warfare

29 Sep 2023

Cutting HS2 is a decade too late

25 Sep 2023

Does France want a king?

22 Sep 2023

The EU is set to ban paying for sperm

20 Sep 2023

Dechurched America: 40 million worshippers no longer attend

14 Sep 2023

China’s economy isn’t slowing — it’s collapsing

11 Sep 2023

Forget San Francisco — Britain has a shoplifting epidemic too

07 Sep 2023

Forget San Francisco — Britain has a shoplifting epidemic too

07 Sep 2023

Strong economic growth absolves Brexit but not Truss

04 Sep 2023

Why is the green movement targeting energy security?

31 Aug 2023

Both Left and Right get Oliver Anthony wrong

28 Aug 2023

Fat-positive activists miss Ozempic’s real risk

25 Aug 2023

China’s shocking demographic decline just got worse

21 Aug 2023

Why rich men fear Oliver Anthony

17 Aug 2023

Britain is not a poor country

14 Aug 2023

Europe’s populist Right is far from united

10 Aug 2023

Foreign investment plummets as the West snubs China

07 Aug 2023

Is Ursula von der Leyen’s job under threat?

04 Aug 2023

Keir Starmer knows exactly what he’s doing

31 Jul 2023

The Farage-Coutts affair is a lesson for liberals

26 Jul 2023

Is Elon Musk about to turn Twitter into the god app?

24 Jul 2023

The surprising answer to Nigel Farage’s Coutts problem

20 Jul 2023

RFK Jr and the slur of ‘red-brown’ politics

17 Jul 2023

For Europe’s future defence, look to the ‘quad’

13 Jul 2023

Rishi Sunak will survive the ‘mini-general election’

07 Jul 2023

Was Just Stop Oil right to disrupt Pride?

03 Jul 2023

Is the Airbnb bubble bursting?

29 Jun 2023

How the EU destroyed the Greek Left

26 Jun 2023

Could liberals become the new Brexiteers?

22 Jun 2023

Why we should welcome Joe Rogan’s RFK Jr debate

19 Jun 2023

Elon Musk is wrong: the US does not need a new Sulla

15 Jun 2023

A Johnson-Farage party makes no sense

12 Jun 2023

Apple’s Vision Pro: a window into a dark future

08 Jun 2023

Germany’s AfD shows the populist tide is back

05 Jun 2023

For his own good, Boris should make a strategic retreat

01 Jun 2023

Spain tilts to the Right in regional elections

29 May 2023

Dune: Part Two doesn’t need to be sanitised

25 May 2023

How Right-wing is too Right-wing for Western leaders?

22 May 2023

Where is Rishi Sunak’s industrial strategy?

18 May 2023

Does Ukraine have Brexit to thank for Western support?

15 May 2023

Millennial Millie is no better than Mondeo Man

12 May 2023

The Green Party is the latest threat to the Tories

08 May 2023

Beware the military-AI complex

04 May 2023

The Covid questions that just won’t go away

01 May 2023

Chinese cars pose an existential threat to Europe

27 Apr 2023

The towns that defied the global baby shortage

24 Apr 2023

Just Stop Oil should stop targeting normies

20 Apr 2023

Donald Trump Jr comes to Bud Light’s rescue

17 Apr 2023

Why won’t San Francisco save itself?

14 Apr 2023

Why are Americans getting dumber?

12 Apr 2023

President Le Pen? It’s never been more likely

06 Apr 2023

Sanna Marin’s fall confirms that populism is back

03 Apr 2023

Why is Jeremy Hunt attacking Joe Biden?

30 Mar 2023

We can’t stop AI — so let’s ride the tiger

29 Mar 2023

Why are Americans dying so young?

28 Mar 2023

Are raccoon dogs really to blame for Covid?

24 Mar 2023

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

21 Mar 2023

Dr Fauci is still downplaying the lab-leak hypothesis

13 Mar 2023

In defence of Russell Brand

10 Mar 2023

National conservatism has a future in Britain

09 Mar 2023

The danger in Keir Starmer appointing Sue Gray

02 Mar 2023

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

01 Mar 2023

Is the Ukraine war about to spread to Moldova?

24 Feb 2023

Beware the promise of ‘peak woke’

22 Feb 2023

Is a religious revival breaking out in America?

16 Feb 2023

Is this the new golden era of UFOs?

13 Feb 2023

The danger of Sweden’s Sami Day celebrations

09 Feb 2023

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

06 Feb 2023

There will be no ‘graceful defeat’ for the Tories

03 Feb 2023

Why young people leaving the cities is bad for the Tories

01 Feb 2023

The EU’s trade war hypocrisy

26 Jan 2023