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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The fate of Wilhelm Reich is a warning to us today Persecuting intellectuals, however fringe, rarely ends well

03 Nov 2022

Don’t blame Liz Truss for her phone hack The soft underbelly of British security isn't the fault of politicians

31 Oct 2022

The Covid question that won’t go away A new Senate report casts doubt on the virus's origin

28 Oct 2022

This is not a globalist coup There is no need to dip into conspiracies to explain the return of Rishi Sunak

24 Oct 2022

A Labour landslide would be a disaster They may deserve it, but a Tory wipeout is a dangerous prospect

20 Oct 2022

Jeremy Hunt liquidates Liz Truss The new chancellor has turned into an insolvency practitioner

17 Oct 2022

Emmanuel Macron moves to crush the protesters (again) Oil workers have vowed to continue their strikes

13 Oct 2022

Liz Truss is a liberalist, not a liberal We have a new word to add to the political lexicon

10 Oct 2022

Did green protesters save Liz Truss? Her performance was visibly energised by the interruption

05 Oct 2022

Liz Truss is on the horns of a trilemma The PM must either sacrifice her party, her authority or the economy

03 Oct 2022

The silver lining of Black Wednesday 2.0 Short-term devaluation may lead to long-term benefits

30 Sep 2022

Giorgia Meloni crushes her friends as well as enemies In yesterday's Italian election, even her political allies went backwards

26 Sep 2022

Kwasi Kwarteng bets the house on old ideas Despite the hype, the mini-budget isn't all that radical

23 Sep 2022

What the IEA gets wrong about liberalism In practise, the ideology always leads to welfarism

22 Sep 2022

Honi soit qui mal y pense Shame on those who pour scorn on the mourners

19 Sep 2022

Republicans may not like what comes after monarchy There are more alternatives than they think

16 Sep 2022

Is the energy crisis just a panic? Markets may be over-reacting to changes in gas prices

12 Sep 2022

The Queen became a true Christian leader As the years went by, her faith became more pronounced

11 Sep 2022

Don’t do an Osborne, Rishi Sunak should stay in politics and fight from the backbenches

06 Sep 2022

Why British liberals should thank Nigel Farage His brand of populism did not appeal to the authoritarian young

02 Sep 2022

The Guardian tries to cancel gardening A writer claims that the term is loaded with cultural baggage

30 Aug 2022

Emily Maitlis gives a masterclass in BBC bias She has revealed the truth about the corporation's "neutrality"

25 Aug 2022

Wind farms are profiteering during Britain’s energy crisis Kwasi Kwarteng should hit them with a windfall tax

23 Aug 2022

Liz Truss needs a Minister for Winter Our next Prime Minister needs to prepare for a chaotic Christmas

19 Aug 2022

Britain can become an education super-exporter Our universities have a unique appeal for foreign students

16 Aug 2022

Catholicism needs to get weird again The Church is losing followers because it has become boring

12 Aug 2022

Rishi Sunak is right about worthless university degrees Don't blame the former Chancellor for pointing out the obvious

08 Aug 2022

Why are America’s politicians so old? Its ageing elites symbolise a broader cultural stagnancy

04 Aug 2022

Is this a turning point in the Tory leadership race? Liz Truss' double blunder might sink her whole campaign

02 Aug 2022

Boris has gone, but his policies remain popular New research shows that Tory voters want to level up — and soon

29 Jul 2022

Can Britain still celebrate itself? Ten years on from the London Olympics, it would appear not

28 Jul 2022

Liberals are getting complacent over Giorgia Meloni If one outsider can disrupt Italian politics, then it can happen again

26 Jul 2022

Liz Truss to win? I’m not so sure There are another six weeks of blue-on-blue action to come

21 Jul 2022

Did tactical votes defeat Kemi? A significant number of Tom Tugendhat's voters ended up backing Truss

19 Jul 2022

The real weaknesses of the Tory candidates Three leadership debates have been revealing in all the wrong ways

18 Jul 2022

Will a TV debate sink Penny Mordaunt? Her record as one of the wokest Tories leaves her open to challenge

14 Jul 2022

New populist party storms into Danish politics The Denmark Democrats have emerged from nowhere to hit 11% of the vote

13 Jul 2022

A wacky start to the Tory leadership race Eleven candidates have now thrown their hat in the ring

11 Jul 2022

Boris Derangement Syndrome lives on Figures like Rory Stewart and John Major are getting carried away

08 Jul 2022

How Boris can survive It's not over yet for the greased piglet

06 Jul 2022

Marine Le Pen’s revenge against Emmanuel Macron She's now the only person the President can do business with

05 Jul 2022

The danger of digital tattoos This innovation could allow governments to surveil us at all times

30 Jun 2022

Britain needs higher property taxes right now A reckoning is needed for those who have milked the system

28 Jun 2022

Oliver Dowden always has the last laugh His resignation letter skewers Boris Johnson's tanking administration

24 Jun 2022

The myth of the centre-Left ‘revival’ Liberal publications keep making the wrong predictions

23 Jun 2022

France has the worst electoral system in the world It is outdated and unreliable

20 Jun 2022

Dear bishops, stop grandstanding on Rwanda They must face scrutiny for their open letter

16 Jun 2022

The Left threatens Macron’s majority Jean-Luc Mélenchon's faction made big gains in yesterday's election

13 Jun 2022

America is not in a ‘reactionary moment’ There is nothing Right-wing about the return of common sense

09 Jun 2022

Boris Johnson isn’t the problem Our political system is based on shallow short-termism

06 Jun 2022

The biblical meaning of a Jubilee The celebration is the original 'great reset'

02 Jun 2022

Will Boris survive? History provides the clues Since the War, the Tory party has swapped prime minister six times

01 Jun 2022

Tony Blair is back with (another) centrist party The former PM wants to emulate Emmanuel Macron's success

27 May 2022

Progressives have made gun control harder The Left's disregard for law and order damaged the cause of reform

25 May 2022

Business as usual at Davos — but don’t mention Putin The WEF has conveniently forgotten last year's headline speaker

23 May 2022

Nick Clegg is wrong about the metaverse (again) He fails to understand that the technology is a step backwards not forwards

19 May 2022

Who will topple Boris Johnson? Not since 2005 has the field been this open

16 May 2022

The petty backlash to the Street Votes proposal Certain naysayers would rather react to a headline than give change a chance

13 May 2022

The UK should join Macron’s EU Lite The French President has proposed a new geography for Europe

12 May 2022

Olaf Scholz suffers electoral humiliation The Chancellor's Party took a beating in Germany’s northernmost region

09 May 2022

Is a crisis brewing in the Eurozone? A repeat of 2012 is the last thing the currency union needs

09 May 2022

Westminster Tories deserved to lose The Tory council has destroyed the borough with hideous architecture

06 May 2022

The European map that explains populist politics Economic growth since the crash matches patterns across the continent

04 May 2022

Calm down, liberals: Elon Musk is no threat to democracy (yet) The hysteria over the billionaire's Twitter takeover is getting ridiculous

28 Apr 2022

France’s old duopoly is officially dead The country's traditional parties look set to gain few seats at the legislative election

27 Apr 2022

After Marine Le Pen, what next for the French Right? The future of French conservatism has never looked less certain

24 Apr 2022

Secularism is leaving us feeling empty New research shows that religiosity is linked to positive well-being

20 Apr 2022

The EU would survive President Marine le Pen Many of her positions are already found in other member states

19 Apr 2022

The collapse of French conservatism is the story of the night While the far-Right made significant inroads, the centre-Right collapsed

11 Apr 2022

Germany is letting Europe down Berlin is already moving to dilute EU sanctions

08 Apr 2022

In Shanghai, Zero Covid means zero freedom Dystopian images are coming out of the Chinese city

06 Apr 2022

Why does Boris want to nuke the UK?

05 Apr 2022

Can France’s deplorables secure a Le Pen victory? The country's disenfranchised could swing the election in her favour

04 Apr 2022

Has Putin’s invasion hurt the European Left? Across the continent, there have been opposite results

31 Mar 2022

Ignore the wheat panic: the world still has plenty The war in Ukraine is unlikely to cause mass starvation

29 Mar 2022

The EU was doomed from the start As the union celebrates its 65th, it's time to think about retirement

25 Mar 2022

Rishi Sunak could have helped the poor — but didn’t We face a cost of living emergency that will hit the poorest hardest

23 Mar 2022

Éric Zemmour can’t blame Putin for his slump The populist candidate is now in fifth place

22 Mar 2022

Should we envy China’s army of billionaires? The country now has more than America and India combined

21 Mar 2022

How globalisation cheated America The West's opening up to China came at a big cost

16 Mar 2022

As Britain escapes lockdown, China is still stuck Over 35 million Chinese citizens are facing new restrictions

14 Mar 2022

Is the US prepared for a United States of Eurasia? War always creates power vacuums — the West must fill them

11 Mar 2022

Putin blows up his own currency The ruble's value has fallen by 40% since Russia's invasion of Ukraine

10 Mar 2022

Putin has saved Boris Johnson

09 Mar 2022

Europe is still bankrolling Russia The market value of gas exported from Russia to the EU is going up

07 Mar 2022

Is this the end of the G20? The international club has already ceased to function

04 Mar 2022

Why we need a new Domesday Book

03 Mar 2022

Why the West cares more about Ukraine Our shared cultural identity is a legitimate factor

28 Feb 2022

The Ukraine crisis started with Suez

25 Feb 2022

Don’t blame the Ukraine crisis on NATO enlargement Historically, Russia has provoked European countries into joining

24 Feb 2022

In defence of the Gatsby house Building a stately home is a constructive way for the rich to spend their money

22 Feb 2022

Shock poll rocks Spanish politics Vox is now the second most popular party in Spain

21 Feb 2022

The New York Times erases JK Rowling The Grey Lady wants readers to 'imagine Harry Potter without its Creator'

18 Feb 2022

The West is facing an unprecedented rent crisis Property prices and rental values are skyrocketing

17 Feb 2022

Brexiteers must sacrifice the Queen

16 Feb 2022

The World Economic Forum has lost the plot From cold showers to animal inequality, the WEF is putting out weird content

11 Feb 2022

Is Russell Brand the British Joe Rogan? The British comedian is politically difficult to box — and that's why he has enemies

09 Feb 2022

Boris’s challengers are hidden from view Number 10 won't let us hear what Sunak or Truss really think

07 Feb 2022

The Medicis knew how to level up

03 Feb 2022