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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What Whoopi Goldberg gets wrong about race The comedian’s conception of racism is that it’s only about visible differences

02 Feb 2022

Sue Gray’s report is good news for Boris… so far There have been no new revelations about Partygate

31 Jan 2022

Across Europe, Right-wing populists are back Hard-Right parties made significant gains in Portugal and the Netherlands

31 Jan 2022

The UK economy’s superpower: creating jobs Unlike the rest of Europe and America, labour participation keeps going up

28 Jan 2022

How the EU betrayed Ukraine

26 Jan 2022

California Governor: my state is looking ‘third world’ Gavin Newsom is finally admitting there is a problem

24 Jan 2022

Why we’ll end up eating bugs

20 Jan 2022

If Russia invades Ukraine, Germany must pay the price Pipeline politics have undermined Europe's strategic advantage over Russia

19 Jan 2022

Why the poor don’t move to richer cities The economic rewards of big city life have not been shared equally

17 Jan 2022

The richest 0.00001% in America are getting richer Just 18 individuals held more than $50 billion in wealth last year

14 Jan 2022

Who will rise from the Boris chaos?

13 Jan 2022

Bill Gates offers a non-answer to lab-leak question The billionaire gave a weirdly content-free statement to Devi Sridhar

12 Jan 2022

Lord Frost’s way forward is back to the 1980s The former Brexit chief chooses to ignore Britain's productivity crisis

10 Jan 2022

How many years behind the US is Britain? A new system tell us the answer — economically, at least

07 Jan 2022

Don’t silence conspiracy theorists

06 Jan 2022

Why Starmer, not Johnson, could fall in 2022 For the first time in years, Labour has plausible alternatives

05 Jan 2022

‘Look Ahead’ gives a look at the BBC worldview The correspondents' annual predictions say more about them than anything else

03 Jan 2022

Is Liz Truss set to be the new Alec Douglas-Home? Ideas about the Foreign Secretary taking over are eerily reminiscent

30 Dec 2021

The Japanification of the Eurozone ECB holdings of government debt are now very close to Japanese levels

10 Dec 2021

Elon Musk is right: declining birth rates are a threat to civilisation He may have cynical motives, but his point stands

09 Dec 2021

What Mussolini’s teacher taught Boris

08 Dec 2021

California mathematicians turn against woke curriculum A group of 500 teachers and scientists have objected to a politicised syllabus

06 Dec 2021

Ursula Von der Leyen pushes for compulsory vaccination The EU has no power to implement, let alone enforce, such a policy

02 Dec 2021

At last! Labour finally has a recognisable shadow cabinet Until yesterday's reshuffle Keir Starmer appointed political pygmies

30 Nov 2021

Left and Right unite against M&S building plans The planned demolition of Orchard House has angered traditionalists and environmentalists

29 Nov 2021

Three big decisions Boris got right on Covid The PM made some tough but ultimately correct calls

25 Nov 2021

Boris Johnson needs a Willie

24 Nov 2021

Benenden’s head is wrong on wokeness The girls' school head is the latest actor in the culture wars

22 Nov 2021

The metaverse is doomed to fail We may be addicted to electronics, but not when they are all-consuming

18 Nov 2021

Why Macron snubbed the EU

17 Nov 2021

Jeff Bezos’s spaced-out vision for the human race The Amazon founder thinks a trillion people could live in the Solar System

16 Nov 2021

American voters prefer populism to wokeness Especially if they're working class

15 Nov 2021

The New York Times’ fake ‘Brexit brain drain’ Will the Grey Lady ever get its facts right about the UK?

11 Nov 2021

Europe can’t defend itself

10 Nov 2021

Could a revived SDP break through? A large and diverse conference suggests that the Party is on the up

08 Nov 2021

Britain’s forever war with France

05 Nov 2021

Boris was wrong to U-turn on Owen Paterson The so-called sleaze affair is nothing compared to previous scandals

04 Nov 2021

Critical Race Theory blows it for Democrats in Virginia A shocking victory for the Republicans came from battles over education

03 Nov 2021

Young people turn against Joe Biden Support among 18-24 year olds has plummeted, spelling trouble for 2024

02 Nov 2021

How hard will America squeeze its billionaires? The rich are getting richer — but a political backlash is brewing

29 Oct 2021

Lord of the Rings is better than Dune

29 Oct 2021

Modernism’s latest victim: Angers Cathedral The new extension to the French masterpiece tries but falls short

28 Oct 2021

A tax-cutting budget without tax cuts Rishi Sunak played a trick at the despatch box

27 Oct 2021

A tax-cutting budget without any tax cuts

26 Oct 2021

Globalisation has ruined Hollywood These days it's nothing but sequels and movie ‘franchises’

25 Oct 2021

How Poland could bring down the EU

21 Oct 2021

The synthetic drugs destroying America Deaths are exploding across all ethnic groups and around the country

20 Oct 2021

The libertarian Right is scapegoating Net Zero They are turning attention away from the causes of the energy crisis

18 Oct 2021

Is Boris spending like a drunken sailor? Beyond Covid, there have been big shifts in Government spending

13 Oct 2021

When will the Left stop telling itself fairy tales? Contrary to claims made in The Guardian, the Tories won fair and square

11 Oct 2021

Do we discriminate against boring people? This may be one form of prejudice that we're all overlooking

06 Oct 2021

Boris Johnson’s disaster Toryism

05 Oct 2021

Listen to Elon Musk, not Keir Starmer The Tesla founder doesn't hide behind bland PR statements

30 Sep 2021

Will China introduce forced fertilisation?

29 Sep 2021

Dream all you like, but there is no centre-Left revival The SPD's victory in Germany was, in truth, a bit of a fluke

27 Sep 2021

On climate change, Boris Johnson is no Margaret Thatcher The Prime Minister's speech to the UN was an exercise in bluster

23 Sep 2021

Sorry, the energy crisis has nothing to do with Brexit or hippies Ideologues are projecting their own biases

22 Sep 2021

Serfs don’t vote Tory

21 Sep 2021

Evergrande could trigger a global economic crisis The real-estate bubble in China is reminiscent of 2008 — only worse

20 Sep 2021

Michael Gove is now the most important man in government And, incidentally, I called it a year ago

15 Sep 2021

What Boris can learn from Barnier

15 Sep 2021

Emma Raducanu’s overlooked heritage Using the tennis star for political point scoring obscures her background

13 Sep 2021

How Conservatives MPs are different from their voters The party is economically liberal, but the people who vote for them are not

10 Sep 2021

Angela Merkel’s reign of failure

09 Sep 2021

Meet Japan’s wannabe Margaret Thatcher Sanae Takaichi could become Japan's first female PM

08 Sep 2021

Immortal billionaires? What could go wrong! Silicon Valley is investing in life-extending technology — should we worry?

07 Sep 2021

You need to know about the Doge meme NFT It may seem ridiculous, but in the crypto world it could be worth billions

02 Sep 2021

We need more Pen Farthings

01 Sep 2021

The West can learn from China’s crackdown on gaming For years, we have tried — and failed — to restrict access to pornography

31 Aug 2021

More money doesn’t make better schools Even socialists now reject the connection between expenditure and quality

27 Aug 2021

The British Brit-bashers are at it again Whatever the problem, some people always find a way to blame Brexit

26 Aug 2021

How Tony Blair gets away with it

25 Aug 2021

Germany’s ‘black zero’ fetish hurts the rest of Europe The CDU's obsession with a balanced budget is a scam

23 Aug 2021

The debate on Afghanistan exposed a delusional Parliament MPs seem to think Britain has a real role to play in this crisis — they're wrong

19 Aug 2021

America can still win

19 Aug 2021

It’s impossible to stop politicians lying A petition is seeking to ban untruths from the House of Commons — it will fail

18 Aug 2021

What’s gone wrong with London architecture? The capital has never looked worse than it does today

17 Aug 2021

Italy has become an ECB dependency Brussels is effectively in control of Draghi's government

16 Aug 2021

The mysterious Covid productivity bonus Interrupting access to cheap labour may have a positive outcome

12 Aug 2021

How Boris can end climate change

11 Aug 2021

No, Orbán is not the Chávez of the Right There’s nothing equal about the odiousness of their respective regimes

09 Aug 2021

Will Biden look beyond the bobos? The President looks genuinely interested in the non-college educated

05 Aug 2021

Bankers are running the country

04 Aug 2021

Is Niall Ferguson planning to start a university? The historian says he won't write any more books

02 Aug 2021

Unesco is right to ditch Liverpool The city has abandoned its heritage and must accept the consequences

23 Jul 2021

Don’t blame global warming on men Using environmental metrics to pursue progressive social agendas is a bad idea

22 Jul 2021

How Boris can survive Cummings

21 Jul 2021

The map that should terrify the West China has replaced the US as the main trading partner of most countries

19 Jul 2021

Boris Johnson’s dreadful ‘levelling-up’ speech Was he reading out the pages in random order?

15 Jul 2021

Let’s leave Branson in space

14 Jul 2021

The Left is curiously silent on Cuba Corbynites have avoided weighing in on the protests

13 Jul 2021

Italy’s young voters are drifting to the Right New polling shows that populism is not the preserve of older voters

12 Jul 2021

Why can’t anyone afford property? Blame central banks Speculation is preventing a generation from becoming homeowners

09 Jul 2021

Brexit isn’t going to plan

08 Jul 2021

Sorry Extinction Rebellion, but nature is not progressive The world is, I'm afraid, dreadfully reactionary

06 Jul 2021

Canada’s heatwave is a vision of our future In decades to come swathes of the world will resemble British Columbia today

02 Jul 2021

Labour deserves to lose Batley and Spen

30 Jun 2021

Meet COREPER, the secret committee at the heart of Europe One of the most powerful EU structures is one you've probably never heard of

28 Jun 2021

Have we reached peak progressive? With few things left to liberate, progressivism is starting to eat itself

24 Jun 2021