Peter Franklin

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

How Boris can end climate change

11 Aug 2021

No, Orbán is not the Chávez of the Right

09 Aug 2021

Will Biden look beyond the bobos?

05 Aug 2021

Bankers are running the country

04 Aug 2021

Is Niall Ferguson planning to start a university?

02 Aug 2021

Unesco is right to ditch Liverpool

23 Jul 2021

Don’t blame global warming on men

22 Jul 2021

How Boris can survive Cummings

21 Jul 2021

The map that should terrify the West

19 Jul 2021

Boris Johnson’s dreadful ‘levelling-up’ speech

15 Jul 2021

Let’s leave Branson in space

14 Jul 2021

The Left is curiously silent on Cuba

13 Jul 2021

Italy’s young voters are drifting to the Right

12 Jul 2021

Why can’t anyone afford property? Blame central banks

09 Jul 2021

Brexit isn’t going to plan

08 Jul 2021

Sorry Extinction Rebellion, but nature is not progressive

06 Jul 2021

Canada’s heatwave is a vision of our future

02 Jul 2021

Labour deserves to lose Batley and Spen

30 Jun 2021

Meet COREPER, the secret committee at the heart of Europe

28 Jun 2021

Have we reached peak progressive?

24 Jun 2021

How Boris can save the Blue Wall

23 Jun 2021

Why is China pulling the plug on coal?

22 Jun 2021

Can the Liberal Democrats become the party of the South?

17 Jun 2021

Why we need the Great Reset

16 Jun 2021

The biggest threat to the post-Covid economic recovery: the Germans

15 Jun 2021

Would you pull the legs off a fly?

11 Jun 2021

The woke don’t want to save the world

10 Jun 2021

Will we accept human-animal hybrids?

08 Jun 2021

Bangladesh: the world’s hidden success story

03 Jun 2021

Tim Martin’s Remainer enemies are missing the point

02 Jun 2021

Is Boris Johnson really a Catholic?

01 Jun 2021

Should conservatives offer sanctuary to dissidents of the Left?

28 May 2021

Told you so: Charles Darwin next up for cancellation

26 May 2021

Is it time to sell your Bitcoin?

25 May 2021

Boris owes it all to Theresa May

24 May 2021

Revealed: The most important political trend of our time

20 May 2021

The end of woke is nigh

19 May 2021

America takes UFOs seriously, so why don’t we?

17 May 2021

The psychic powers of the contemporary Left

14 May 2021

Is Christianity the anti-green religion?

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

10 May 2021

The Tories: the Doctor Who of political parties

07 May 2021

Labour needs to be humiliated

06 May 2021

Long live the Tartarian Empire!

05 May 2021

Don’t place science on a pedestal

30 Apr 2021

Beware the post-Covid surveillance state

29 Apr 2021

Westminster’s empty narcissism

28 Apr 2021

Should universities no platform flat-earthers?

27 Apr 2021

Highest level of borrowing since the War? Don’t worry about it!

23 Apr 2021

The Lefties at the heart of government

22 Apr 2021

It’s time to unlock Parliament and pin-down government

21 Apr 2021

More tea, Associate Archdeacon Transition Enabler?

20 Apr 2021

When will the ‘experts’ apologise for their Brexit predictions?

19 Apr 2021

Why we won’t cancel Yuri Gagarin

12 Apr 2021

Can Jennifer Lopez tempt you back to work?

08 Apr 2021

The hypocrisy of David Cameron

08 Apr 2021

America’s disturbing death statistics

07 Apr 2021

Make the Church weird again

02 Apr 2021

Where Viktor Orbán leads, the EU follows

31 Mar 2021

How Starmer can beat the Tories

31 Mar 2021

We need memorials for murdered buildings

30 Mar 2021

It’s not just the Suez Canal, our world is full of choke points

26 Mar 2021

What is your ideological blindspot?

25 Mar 2021

Brexiteers can’t deny Scots a vote

24 Mar 2021

Are female leaders really so different?

22 Mar 2021

A British idiot’s guide to the Dutch election result

19 Mar 2021

Is Denmark creating an inverted-Apartheid?

18 Mar 2021

Has the EU lost its mind?

17 Mar 2021

Angela Merkel’s crumbling legacy

15 Mar 2021

We can’t all take on the cistern and win

14 Mar 2021

The next front in the culture wars: AI-voiced cartoons

11 Mar 2021

How long before beauty itself becomes taboo?

10 Mar 2021

Memo to populists: it’s security, not liberty, stupid

08 Mar 2021

Robots: the new Republican dividing line

05 Mar 2021

The moral bankruptcy of cancel culture

04 Mar 2021

How the EU humiliated itself

03 Mar 2021

What’s spooking Rishi?

02 Mar 2021

Mark Carney has some explaining to do

26 Feb 2021

Will Rishi Sunak survive this Budget?

25 Feb 2021

Where have all the workers gone?

24 Feb 2021

The ‘new optimists’ can’t see the wood for the trees

22 Feb 2021

Why Left and Right alike fall for junk economics

19 Feb 2021

Why we don’t tolerate Covid deaths among the over 70s

18 Feb 2021

Europe is waiting for its Napoleon

17 Feb 2021

Why Labour can’t unite the tribes of Britain

15 Feb 2021

Why Keir Starmer should be worried about the Greens

12 Feb 2021

The death of the idle rich

10 Feb 2021

Tory wars over Brexit are far from over

08 Feb 2021

The EU would if it could, but it can’t so it won’t

05 Feb 2021

What Roger Hallam gets right — and wrong

04 Feb 2021

Why the cleverest man in the world was wrong

03 Feb 2021

Free money or free school meals? There’s another option

02 Feb 2021

Europe shows its true colours

01 Feb 2021

Does calling a man a pig perpetuate human supremacy?

28 Jan 2021

George Monbiot’s ‘Ministry of Truth’ is a dangerous idea

27 Jan 2021

Are we about to witness a cloning boom?

26 Jan 2021

A Moonshot Mission that misses its target

26 Jan 2021

Brexit was not a ‘Whiggish’ project

22 Jan 2021

The basic flaw in British Government

22 Jan 2021