Peter Franklin

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

Why would South America want a single currency?

23 Jan 2023

What Bolshevism tells us about the future of wokeism

20 Jan 2023

The Davos 2023 agenda lies in ruins

16 Jan 2023

Andrew Bridgen: the latest example of Right-wing self-sabotage

12 Jan 2023

The future belongs to competent populists

10 Jan 2023

Rishi Sunak needs a new speechwriter

05 Jan 2023

Decolonisation isn’t just about the West

03 Jan 2023

Five things that didn’t happen in 2022

30 Dec 2022

Bring back secular Christmas

25 Dec 2022

Living in the pod should not be an option

23 Dec 2022

European populism is going mainstream

19 Dec 2022

Zero Covid means no ‘Chinese century’

15 Dec 2022

The danger of the eurozone’s hidden divide

14 Dec 2022

Welcome to the Dyson Zone: your isolated world

09 Dec 2022

Keir Starmer can finish what the Tories started

05 Dec 2022

Sorry Maria Ressa, censoring speech won’t save democracy

01 Dec 2022

Even British liberals are exasperated with the New York Times

29 Nov 2022

The Tories must stop ‘quiet quitting’

25 Nov 2022

Jeremy Hunt has no vision for Britain

17 Nov 2022

The moral lesson from Sam Bankman-Fried’s downfall

14 Nov 2022

Right-wing populists need a new strategy

10 Nov 2022

Twitter is proof that Big Tech is out of ideas

07 Nov 2022

The fate of Wilhelm Reich is a warning to us today

03 Nov 2022

Don’t blame Liz Truss for her phone hack

31 Oct 2022

The Covid question that won’t go away

28 Oct 2022

This is not a globalist coup

24 Oct 2022

A Labour landslide would be a disaster

20 Oct 2022

Jeremy Hunt liquidates Liz Truss

17 Oct 2022

Emmanuel Macron moves to crush the protesters (again)

13 Oct 2022

Liz Truss is a liberalist, not a liberal

10 Oct 2022

Did green protesters save Liz Truss?

05 Oct 2022

Liz Truss is on the horns of a trilemma

03 Oct 2022

The silver lining of Black Wednesday 2.0

30 Sep 2022

Giorgia Meloni crushes her friends as well as enemies

26 Sep 2022

Kwasi Kwarteng bets the house on old ideas

23 Sep 2022

What the IEA gets wrong about liberalism

22 Sep 2022

Honi soit qui mal y pense

19 Sep 2022

Republicans may not like what comes after monarchy

16 Sep 2022

Is the energy crisis just a panic?

12 Sep 2022

The Queen became a true Christian leader

11 Sep 2022

Don’t do an Osborne, Rishi

06 Sep 2022

Why British liberals should thank Nigel Farage

02 Sep 2022

The Guardian tries to cancel gardening

30 Aug 2022

Emily Maitlis gives a masterclass in BBC bias

25 Aug 2022

Wind farms are profiteering during Britain’s energy crisis

23 Aug 2022

Liz Truss needs a Minister for Winter

19 Aug 2022

Britain can become an education super-exporter

16 Aug 2022

Catholicism needs to get weird again

12 Aug 2022

Rishi Sunak is right about worthless university degrees

08 Aug 2022

Why are America’s politicians so old?

04 Aug 2022

Is this a turning point in the Tory leadership race?

02 Aug 2022

Boris has gone, but his policies remain popular

29 Jul 2022

Can Britain still celebrate itself?

28 Jul 2022

Liberals are getting complacent over Giorgia Meloni

26 Jul 2022

Liz Truss to win? I’m not so sure

21 Jul 2022

Did tactical votes defeat Kemi?

19 Jul 2022

The real weaknesses of the Tory candidates

18 Jul 2022

Will a TV debate sink Penny Mordaunt?

14 Jul 2022

New populist party storms into Danish politics

13 Jul 2022

A wacky start to the Tory leadership race

11 Jul 2022

Boris Derangement Syndrome lives on

08 Jul 2022

How Boris can survive

06 Jul 2022

Marine Le Pen’s revenge against Emmanuel Macron

05 Jul 2022

The danger of digital tattoos

30 Jun 2022

Britain needs higher property taxes right now

28 Jun 2022

Oliver Dowden always has the last laugh

24 Jun 2022

The myth of the centre-Left ‘revival’

23 Jun 2022

France has the worst electoral system in the world

20 Jun 2022

Dear bishops, stop grandstanding on Rwanda

16 Jun 2022

The Left threatens Macron’s majority

13 Jun 2022

America is not in a ‘reactionary moment’

09 Jun 2022

Boris Johnson isn’t the problem

06 Jun 2022

The biblical meaning of a Jubilee

02 Jun 2022

Will Boris survive? History provides the clues

01 Jun 2022

Tony Blair is back with (another) centrist party

27 May 2022

Progressives have made gun control harder

25 May 2022

Business as usual at Davos — but don’t mention Putin

23 May 2022

Nick Clegg is wrong about the metaverse (again)

19 May 2022

Who will topple Boris Johnson?

16 May 2022

The petty backlash to the Street Votes proposal

13 May 2022

The UK should join Macron’s EU Lite

12 May 2022

Olaf Scholz suffers electoral humiliation

09 May 2022

Is a crisis brewing in the Eurozone?

09 May 2022

Westminster Tories deserved to lose

06 May 2022

The European map that explains populist politics

04 May 2022

Calm down, liberals: Elon Musk is no threat to democracy (yet)

28 Apr 2022

France’s old duopoly is officially dead

27 Apr 2022

After Marine Le Pen, what next for the French Right?

24 Apr 2022

Secularism is leaving us feeling empty

20 Apr 2022

The EU would survive President Marine le Pen

19 Apr 2022

The collapse of French conservatism is the story of the night

11 Apr 2022

Germany is letting Europe down

08 Apr 2022

In Shanghai, Zero Covid means zero freedom

06 Apr 2022

Why does Boris want to nuke the UK?

05 Apr 2022

Can France’s deplorables secure a Le Pen victory?

04 Apr 2022

Has Putin’s invasion hurt the European Left?

31 Mar 2022

Ignore the wheat panic: the world still has plenty

29 Mar 2022

The EU was doomed from the start

25 Mar 2022

Rishi Sunak could have helped the poor — but didn’t

23 Mar 2022

Éric Zemmour can’t blame Putin for his slump

22 Mar 2022