Peter Franklin

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

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

Does good taste excuse grand corruption?

21 Jan 2021

After Trump, conservatives must return to core values

20 Jan 2021

Stop stat-shaming the public

15 Jan 2021

Donald Trump was America’s first post-modern President

13 Jan 2021

Does the Government still care about levelling up?

12 Jan 2021

There’s a world beyond China and the EU

11 Jan 2021

Liberals rarely defend liberalism

31 Dec 2020

Ten ways this year could have been worse

28 Dec 2020

Have yourself a melancholy Christmas

24 Dec 2020

It’s not just the Covid cranks spreading misinformation

22 Dec 2020

Why politicians shouldn’t get the vaccine first

18 Dec 2020

Has California’s day in the sun finished?

17 Dec 2020

Restorations always fail

16 Dec 2020

Without Brexit, things would have been much worse

11 Dec 2020

On the elite Left, there’s horror at patriotism of any kind

10 Dec 2020

Now wokeness can make you sick

09 Dec 2020

The PM’s cabinet of puppets and placemen

08 Dec 2020

Nottingham and the fall of civilisation

07 Dec 2020

Give Harry a break, he’s right about Covid

03 Dec 2020

Don’t mess with Kent

02 Dec 2020

The case for aid should have been patriotic, not preachy

27 Nov 2020

Will Covid kill Silicon Valley?

26 Nov 2020

This is no time for austerity

25 Nov 2020

Should we ‘call in’ people instead of calling them out?

23 Nov 2020

Why won’t Twitter use its blue pencil on Red China?

20 Nov 2020

Brexit makes more sense than ever

19 Nov 2020

How do we bring down factory farming?

18 Nov 2020

The real problem with Marcus Rashford’s property portfolio

17 Nov 2020

The missed opportunity of Dominic Cummings

13 Nov 2020

Liberals are the same, but populists are different

12 Nov 2020

The EU must not interfere in religion

11 Nov 2020

Yanis Varoufakis is right to be wary of Biden

10 Nov 2020

Just what we need: a mutant mink plague

06 Nov 2020

Was the virus engineered?

05 Nov 2020

There can be no winner now

04 Nov 2020

The twilight of the populists?

03 Nov 2020

Centrists are the biggest threat to democracy

02 Nov 2020

What will replace the old ‘Left-Right’ divide?

29 Oct 2020

So which ‘stans’ are you allowed to joke about?

28 Oct 2020

Who are the real tribes of Britain?

27 Oct 2020

Will Joe Biden come after Hungary?

22 Oct 2020

Send helicopter money to the North

21 Oct 2020

China’s war against the family

19 Oct 2020

When did ‘sexual preference’ become politically incorrect?

15 Oct 2020

The empty symbolism of the Nobel Prize for Economics

14 Oct 2020

Will $30 billion fix racial inequality?

13 Oct 2020

The traffic wars speeding your way

09 Oct 2020

Populist or progressive? Post-Covid politics will be neither

09 Oct 2020

Boris Johnson’s U-turn

07 Oct 2020

The Tory problem with poshness

06 Oct 2020

Five reasons why populism is here to stay

01 Oct 2020

Ann Coulter for President?

30 Sep 2020

Let’s recruit our politicians from overseas

29 Sep 2020

Is the mob coming for Charles Darwin?

28 Sep 2020

Did the British invent anything?

24 Sep 2020

No Covid culture wars please, we’re British

23 Sep 2020

The unspoken truth about our permissive society

21 Sep 2020

Why fusionism failed

16 Sep 2020

How liberals paid the price for breaking Britain

15 Sep 2020

The greatest stories never told

08 Sep 2020

Watch out for the DIY surveillance state

04 Sep 2020

Did we (literally) talk ourselves into a pandemic?

02 Sep 2020

Why the future of tech is trad not rad

01 Sep 2020

Don’t educate litter louts, shame them!

27 Aug 2020

Britain: A tale of two retail giants

26 Aug 2020

In defence of the garden fence

25 Aug 2020

Why Boris needs an heir apparent

18 Aug 2020

Un-herding the animals of Animal Farm

17 Aug 2020

‘Recession’ doesn’t begin to cover it

13 Aug 2020

Silly season comes to the Blue Tick brigade

12 Aug 2020

How ID cards could set us free

11 Aug 2020

Are British workers skiving-off?

10 Aug 2020

‘Rightwashing’ is the wrong approach to viewpoint diversity

06 Aug 2020

The coming struggle for space on our streets

04 Aug 2020

It’s time the Tories got tough on landlords

03 Aug 2020

The housing market that wouldn’t die

30 Jul 2020

If we can’t ‘crush the curve’, let’s downsize the dose

29 Jul 2020

Give Grant Shapps a break!

28 Jul 2020

Has lockdown broken old habits for good?

27 Jul 2020

Is Tesla all that remains of real capitalism?

23 Jul 2020

The hypocrisy of conserving Modernist architecture

22 Jul 2020

The myth of ‘Anglo-America’

21 Jul 2020

Is Dua Lipa an Albanian nationalist?

20 Jul 2020

How the elephant lost its trunk

20 Jul 2020

The collective benefit of mask-wearing

17 Jul 2020

The EU’s fiendish game of beggar my neighbour

15 Jul 2020

How we make life easy for the modern slavers

14 Jul 2020

In defence of working-class conservatism

13 Jul 2020

Why isn’t the Creative Class more creative?

09 Jul 2020

Don’t burn our money, Chancellor

08 Jul 2020

How the establishment fell for eugenics

07 Jul 2020

Would you have sex with an alien?

06 Jul 2020

Chinese nuclear power in Britain? No thanks!

02 Jul 2020

It’s Germany’s EU now

01 Jul 2020

Why won’t liberals defend liberalism?

30 Jun 2020

France’s Green revolution

29 Jun 2020

Isaac Asimov’s dangerous idea

25 Jun 2020