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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How Boris can save the Blue Wall

23 Jun 2021

Why is China pulling the plug on coal? Even before the pandemic, Xi Jinping was moving away from the fossil fuel

22 Jun 2021

Can the Liberal Democrats become the party of the South? In a handful of seats, the 2019 vote share was up on 2010

17 Jun 2021

Why we need the Great Reset

16 Jun 2021

The biggest threat to the post-Covid economic recovery: the Germans There are signs that Germany wants to return to economic orthodoxy

15 Jun 2021

Would you pull the legs off a fly? The debate over insect protein as a substitute for meat has taken a surprising turn

11 Jun 2021

The woke don’t want to save the world

10 Jun 2021

Will we accept human-animal hybrids? The reaction to a new Netflix series shows that we may not be ready just yet...

08 Jun 2021

Bangladesh: the world’s hidden success story It's one of Asia's fastest growing economies, but no one talking about it

03 Jun 2021

Tim Martin’s Remainer enemies are missing the point As always, they confuse British control of borders with closed borders

02 Jun 2021

Is Boris Johnson really a Catholic?

01 Jun 2021

Should conservatives offer sanctuary to dissidents of the Left? The Right can offer what progressives won’t: letting people be

28 May 2021

Told you so: Charles Darwin next up for cancellation The scientist's reputation is looking under threat

26 May 2021

Is it time to sell your Bitcoin? Its crazy ups and downs are scaring prominent investors

25 May 2021

Boris owes it all to Theresa May

24 May 2021

Revealed: The most important political trend of our time New research shows just how important the education divide is in western politics

20 May 2021

The end of woke is nigh

19 May 2021

America takes UFOs seriously, so why don’t we? There are a few distinctly American factors at play

17 May 2021

The psychic powers of the contemporary Left People with superior political opinions know your mind better than you do

14 May 2021

Is Christianity the anti-green religion? Christians are torn between plundering nature and protecting it

13 May 2021

Ten ways things could get worse for Labour

12 May 2021

Thatcherism died a long time ago — but Labour has only just realised They are up against a very different kind of Conservative now

10 May 2021

The Tories: the Doctor Who of political parties They are capable of undergoing multiple regenerations while still in office

07 May 2021

Labour needs to be humiliated

06 May 2021

Long live the Tartarian Empire! My new favourite conspiracy theory has much to say about modern architecture

05 May 2021

Don’t place science on a pedestal It is a human activity that is subject to human frailties

30 Apr 2021

Beware the post-Covid surveillance state Like the viruses they’re meant to fight, apps are mutating when no one’s looking

29 Apr 2021

Westminster’s empty narcissism

28 Apr 2021

Should universities no platform flat-earthers? A paper in the new Journal of Controversial Ideas offers an interesting answer

27 Apr 2021

Highest level of borrowing since the War? Don’t worry about it! We should still be confident about our position coming out of the crisis

23 Apr 2021

The Lefties at the heart of government

22 Apr 2021

It’s time to unlock Parliament and pin-down government Lockdown curtailed parliamentary scrutiny — we need to bring it back

21 Apr 2021

More tea, Associate Archdeacon Transition Enabler? It is not clear what this new title even means

20 Apr 2021

When will the ‘experts’ apologise for their Brexit predictions? The years of dire forecasts were not borne out by reality

19 Apr 2021

Why we won’t cancel Yuri Gagarin His statue in London will be safe from the woke iconoclasts

12 Apr 2021

Can Jennifer Lopez tempt you back to work? Offices will need to do more to attract employees in a post-pandemic world

08 Apr 2021

The hypocrisy of David Cameron

08 Apr 2021

America’s disturbing death statistics A new study shows that class, not race, is a bigger predictor of an early death

07 Apr 2021

Make the Church weird again Over time we have abandoned the practices that make life interesting

02 Apr 2021

Where Viktor Orbán leads, the EU follows Anti-Russian resistance to the Sputnik V vaccine is crumbling

31 Mar 2021

How Starmer can beat the Tories

31 Mar 2021

We need memorials for murdered buildings Commemorate the places our architectural inheritance was needlessly erased

30 Mar 2021

It’s not just the Suez Canal, our world is full of choke points For all the blessings of global free trade, it is never a given

26 Mar 2021

What is your ideological blindspot? A new app that looks at Twitter interactions gives some clues

25 Mar 2021

Brexiteers can’t deny Scots a vote

24 Mar 2021

Are female leaders really so different? The EU crisis suggests that the gender of politicians is not important after all

22 Mar 2021

A British idiot’s guide to the Dutch election result To understand what's going on it helps to remember that their politics is mad

19 Mar 2021

Is Denmark creating an inverted-Apartheid? A bold new integration policy is causing a stir

18 Mar 2021

Has the EU lost its mind?

17 Mar 2021

Angela Merkel’s crumbling legacy Yesterday's regional election results throw the CDU's future into question

15 Mar 2021

We can’t all take on the cistern and win Industrialised societies aren’t going to give up their comforts in a hurry

14 Mar 2021

The next front in the culture wars: AI-voiced cartoons A robot voicing a non-white character will cause more headaches for networks

11 Mar 2021

How long before beauty itself becomes taboo? Unilever is forcibly changing the definition of beauty

10 Mar 2021

Memo to populists: it’s security, not liberty, stupid Laurence Fox's launch is all about freedom — but is that what drives populist voters?

08 Mar 2021

Robots: the new Republican dividing line The rivalry between tech-supporting libertarians and pro-job populists defines the party

05 Mar 2021

The moral bankruptcy of cancel culture The NYT's Nikole Hannah-Jones makes a misguided and ahistorical claim

04 Mar 2021

How the EU humiliated itself

03 Mar 2021

What’s spooking Rishi? Bond yields are ticking up — and sharply

02 Mar 2021

Mark Carney has some explaining to do The former Governor of the Bank of England's halo is a little tarnished

26 Feb 2021

Will Rishi Sunak survive this Budget?

25 Feb 2021

Where have all the workers gone? New data shows the biggest outflow of foreign born workers on record

24 Feb 2021

The ‘new optimists’ can’t see the wood for the trees Deforestation continues apace — no matter what some analysts say

22 Feb 2021

Why Left and Right alike fall for junk economics Is there such thing as a free lunch after all?

19 Feb 2021

Why we don’t tolerate Covid deaths among the over 70s New research shows that there’s much more life to live even at that age

18 Feb 2021

Europe is waiting for its Napoleon

17 Feb 2021

Why Labour can’t unite the tribes of Britain The contemporary Left is too invested in prosecuting a culture war

15 Feb 2021

Why Keir Starmer should be worried about the Greens A halfway competent protest party on the Left could cause him problems

12 Feb 2021

The death of the idle rich

10 Feb 2021

Tory wars over Brexit are far from over Hostilities between Gavin Barwell and Dan Hannan are a sign of more to come

08 Feb 2021

The EU would if it could, but it can’t so it won’t It can move quickly or undertake big projects — but not both at the same time

05 Feb 2021

What Roger Hallam gets right — and wrong Talking to Tories is a good thing, but the activist should also to listen to them

04 Feb 2021

Why the cleverest man in the world was wrong 21 years into the 21st century and we have yet to nuke ourselves into extinction

03 Feb 2021

Free money or free school meals? There’s another option Technology may offer a third way

02 Feb 2021

Europe shows its true colours

01 Feb 2021

Does calling a man a pig perpetuate human supremacy? Using animals as insults reinforces speciesism, according to PETA

28 Jan 2021

George Monbiot’s ‘Ministry of Truth’ is a dangerous idea Some of my fellow lockdown hardliners are going off the deep end

27 Jan 2021

Are we about to witness a cloning boom? It's time we made cloning a major industry in the UK

26 Jan 2021

A Moonshot Mission that misses its target

26 Jan 2021

Brexit was not a ‘Whiggish’ project Will the hare-brained historical analogies ever stop?

22 Jan 2021

The basic flaw in British Government No.10 is pathetically weak compared to other Western executives

22 Jan 2021

Does good taste excuse grand corruption? There's little difference between state malfeasance and national heritage

21 Jan 2021

After Trump, conservatives must return to core values

20 Jan 2021

Stop stat-shaming the public Telling the public that they're ignorant is not a way to convince them

15 Jan 2021

Donald Trump was America’s first post-modern President Taking him literally or seriously is beside the point — it's all just narrative

13 Jan 2021

Does the Government still care about levelling up? The social fabric of our nation is fraying — it needs to be urgently addressed

12 Jan 2021

There’s a world beyond China and the EU A Chatham House report on Britain's international role is condescending

11 Jan 2021

Liberals rarely defend liberalism

31 Dec 2020

Ten ways this year could have been worse If we’re lucky, 2020 will be the worst year of the 21st century

28 Dec 2020

Have yourself a melancholy Christmas The original, bleaker, version of the song feels more appropriate for this year

24 Dec 2020

It’s not just the Covid cranks spreading misinformation The FT's former editor claimed that the PM egged up the Covid threat

22 Dec 2020

Why politicians shouldn’t get the vaccine first They should be subject to the same rules as everyone else

18 Dec 2020

Has California’s day in the sun finished? The exodus of tech giants is creating a death spiral

17 Dec 2020

Restorations always fail

16 Dec 2020

Without Brexit, things would have been much worse It all comes down to the single currency

11 Dec 2020

On the elite Left, there’s horror at patriotism of any kind Fintan O'Toole can't seem to bear that we are proud to be vaccinating

10 Dec 2020

Now wokeness can make you sick Why is Cornell offering exemptions to vaccines based on ethnicity?

09 Dec 2020

The PM’s cabinet of puppets and placemen

08 Dec 2020

Nottingham and the fall of civilisation When a city is crushed by concrete, there’s nowhere left to go when it crumbles

07 Dec 2020

Give Harry a break, he’s right about Covid The Prince's public statements can be tiresome, but this one happens to be true

03 Dec 2020