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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Don’t mess with Kent

02 Dec 2020

The case for aid should have been patriotic, not preachy Everybody loved the foreign aid budget — apart from the public

27 Nov 2020

Will Covid kill Silicon Valley? A worker exodus from California marks a permanent change for Big Tech

26 Nov 2020

This is no time for austerity

25 Nov 2020

Should we ‘call in’ people instead of calling them out? There's a humane alternative to cancel culture

23 Nov 2020

Why won’t Twitter use its blue pencil on Red China? The social media giant is happy to edit Donald Trump, but not the CCP

20 Nov 2020

Brexit makes more sense than ever

19 Nov 2020

How do we bring down factory farming? It will be difficult, but not impossible

18 Nov 2020

The real problem with Marcus Rashford’s property portfolio The footballer is hardly alone in owning multiple houses

17 Nov 2020

The missed opportunity of Dominic Cummings Like so many gurus before him, he was sucked into the comms machine

13 Nov 2020

Liberals are the same, but populists are different Is our global future a common one-dimensional political spectrum?

12 Nov 2020

The EU must not interfere in religion Who decides the content of your faith?

11 Nov 2020

Yanis Varoufakis is right to be wary of Biden Trump challenged the system — the Democrats won't

10 Nov 2020

Just what we need: a mutant mink plague A new strain of Covid is spreading through Danish fur farms

06 Nov 2020

Was the virus engineered? One reputable journal does not rule it out

05 Nov 2020

There can be no winner now Neither candidate will have a strong mandate

04 Nov 2020

The twilight of the populists? All over the world, they are in retreat

03 Nov 2020

Centrists are the biggest threat to democracy

02 Nov 2020

What will replace the old ‘Left-Right’ divide? One American writer has a new proposal

29 Oct 2020

So which ‘stans’ are you allowed to joke about? For the confused, here’s a rundown

28 Oct 2020

Who are the real tribes of Britain? New research gets into the heart of what people really believe

27 Oct 2020

Will Joe Biden come after Hungary? He might want to put America's house in order first

22 Oct 2020

Send helicopter money to the North A targeted cash stimulus can help local economies weather lockdown

21 Oct 2020

China’s war against the family An ominous trend emerges in the Chinese province of Xinjiang

19 Oct 2020

When did ‘sexual preference’ become politically incorrect? A classic example of performative offence-taking

15 Oct 2020

The empty symbolism of the Nobel Prize for Economics Why are we honouring mind-numbingly abstract contributions?

14 Oct 2020

Will $30 billion fix racial inequality? Bankers will have to spend a lot more to make up for 2008

13 Oct 2020

The traffic wars speeding your way

09 Oct 2020

Populist or progressive? Post-Covid politics will be neither Evidence suggests that a conservative mood may be growing across Europe

09 Oct 2020

Boris Johnson’s U-turn No politician is better at turning on a sixpence than the Prime Minister

07 Oct 2020

The Tory problem with poshness

06 Oct 2020

Five reasons why populism is here to stay Rumours of its death are greatly exaggerated

01 Oct 2020

Ann Coulter for President? Even she’s had enough of Republican and Democrat tax policies

30 Sep 2020

Let’s recruit our politicians from overseas British businesses draw on a global pool of talent. Why can't the government?

29 Sep 2020

Is the mob coming for Charles Darwin?

28 Sep 2020

Did the British invent anything? A question that liberals need not answer

24 Sep 2020

No Covid culture wars please, we’re British Whatever our Brexit differences, we stood together in 2020

23 Sep 2020

The unspoken truth about our permissive society The arc of history does not bend towards ever-increasing social liberalism

21 Sep 2020

Why fusionism failed The relationship between conservatism and capitalism was doomed from the start

16 Sep 2020

How liberals paid the price for breaking Britain They still don't understand the extent and nature of their privilege

15 Sep 2020

The greatest stories never told

08 Sep 2020

Watch out for the DIY surveillance state It's not just the authorities that are getting the latest gadgets

04 Sep 2020

Did we (literally) talk ourselves into a pandemic? Evidence shows that silence reduces the spread of Covid-19... so which countries are the loudest?

02 Sep 2020

Why the future of tech is trad not rad

01 Sep 2020

Don’t educate litter louts, shame them! People should fear the consequences of disrespectful behaviour

27 Aug 2020

Britain: A tale of two retail giants This country must look to its Ocado future — and leave behind it's M&S past

26 Aug 2020

In defence of the garden fence The things we value most flourish behind borders

25 Aug 2020

Why Boris needs an heir apparent

18 Aug 2020

Un-herding the animals of Animal Farm What do the ducks, hens and geese tell us about Orwell's classic?

17 Aug 2020

‘Recession’ doesn’t begin to cover it The word downplays the magnitude of our current crisis

13 Aug 2020

Silly season comes to the Blue Tick brigade Our liberal celebs have outdone themselves this year...

12 Aug 2020

How ID cards could set us free

11 Aug 2020

Are British workers skiving-off? Londoners are slower than the rest of Europe in returning to the office

10 Aug 2020

‘Rightwashing’ is the wrong approach to viewpoint diversity In our publicly-funded institutions, the Left enjoys a near-monopoly on mediocrity

06 Aug 2020

The coming struggle for space on our streets The Covid crisis has sparked a tarmac turf war

04 Aug 2020

It’s time the Tories got tough on landlords

03 Aug 2020

The housing market that wouldn’t die What will it take to actually reduce house prices?

30 Jul 2020

If we can’t ‘crush the curve’, let’s downsize the dose A new paper suggests that mask-wearing could benefit the wearers themselves

29 Jul 2020

Give Grant Shapps a break! When it comes to taking holidays, politicians can't win

28 Jul 2020

Has lockdown broken old habits for good?

27 Jul 2020

Is Tesla all that remains of real capitalism? We need more, not fewer, mavericks like Elon Musk

23 Jul 2020

The hypocrisy of conserving Modernist architecture The only ideologically sound option is demolition

22 Jul 2020

The myth of ‘Anglo-America’

21 Jul 2020

Is Dua Lipa an Albanian nationalist? It's complacent to assume that irredentist movements are a thing of the past

20 Jul 2020

How the elephant lost its trunk The story of the neoliberal era in one chart...

20 Jul 2020

The collective benefit of mask-wearing Sometimes, we just need to put our individuality aside

17 Jul 2020

The EU’s fiendish game of beggar my neighbour Every member country tries to game the system

15 Jul 2020

How we make life easy for the modern slavers Our addiction to cheap, but legal, labour lets slavery hide in plain sight

14 Jul 2020

In defence of working-class conservatism

13 Jul 2020

Why isn’t the Creative Class more creative? Social liberals are not the luminaries they think they are...

09 Jul 2020

Don’t burn our money, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has to do three big things in his summer statement today

08 Jul 2020

How the establishment fell for eugenics

07 Jul 2020

Would you have sex with an alien? A clever quiz question exposes an important ideological divide

06 Jul 2020

Chinese nuclear power in Britain? No thanks! Sizewell C is another white elephant from a dangerous foe

02 Jul 2020

It’s Germany’s EU now The new President of the EU Council has been in charge all along

01 Jul 2020

Why won’t liberals defend liberalism?

30 Jun 2020

France’s Green revolution Rising support for the environmentalists could hamper Macron's hopes for 2022

29 Jun 2020

Isaac Asimov’s dangerous idea The author's flawed concept of psychohistory has real world examples

25 Jun 2020

The Age of Excuses is over Covid has shown how quickly an economy can transform — let's re-structure it

24 Jun 2020

A city should be a home, not a playground People are no longer tolerating deteriorating urban conditions

23 Jun 2020

Why heroes should wear masks

22 Jun 2020

Why capitalise ‘Black’ but not ‘white’? One American newspaper has made a strange change to their style guide

18 Jun 2020

Arise, Lord Cummings of Barnard Castle! The No10 advisor will form a critical part of the new-look Government

17 Jun 2020

What Boris actually said about purging the past Some of our leading academics didn't like it very much

15 Jun 2020

How to rescue Generation Rent

15 Jun 2020

How did Covid come to Britain? A new study provides some important clues

11 Jun 2020

Why the Conservatives are right to ban evictions Covid is not the landlords' fault, but it's not their tenants' fault either

10 Jun 2020

A V-shaped recovery? U have got to be joking The crisis has bruised some parts of the economy — others have been broken

09 Jun 2020

The inequality that fuels our dangerous times

08 Jun 2020

Is the world facing a hysteretic shock? The lockdown recession threatens to scar the economy for generations

04 Jun 2020

After Trump, will a more dangerous demagogue arrive? It's worth contemplating what a more competent populist could achieve

03 Jun 2020

Hyper-connectivity: Our fatal weakness The pandemic has exposed this fundamental flaw in the economic system

02 Jun 2020

Could coronavirus topple skyscrapers?

01 Jun 2020

The self-harm of Britain’s R&D policies A new report offers some clues into the UK's dismal record on productivity

29 May 2020

To revive the economy, tax Britain’s piggy banks It is the only way to discourage unwanted flows of capital

27 May 2020

The terrible threat of Wokenomics

26 May 2020

Let’s put young Brits to work planting trees Why not give disenchanted youths a job to be proud of?

22 May 2020

Sobriety tags? Great, let’s put them on politicians The consequences of health monitoring devices are mind-boggling

20 May 2020

Will Covid mark the end of national sovereignty in Europe? One way or another, a Rubicon will have to be crossed

19 May 2020