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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Netflix is like food – more doesn’t mean better We end up consuming rubbish, even though there's plenty of good stuff to go round

27 Nov 2019

Housing policy — will the Tories never learn? A government that refuses to take action against rentiers and land bankers will not be able to deliver affordable home ownership

25 Nov 2019

Is the British jobs miracle fake news?

25 Nov 2019

Two cheers for Labour’s housing policy It pains me to say it, but there's a lot to welcome in Corbyn's manifesto

21 Nov 2019

What the fork, Marie Kondo? When luxuries become abundant, the rejection of abundance becomes the new luxury.

21 Nov 2019

Who are the Boris-backing C2DEs? The NRS social grade system is useful for economists, but confusing for everyone else

20 Nov 2019

Sajid Javid’s land tax doesn’t go far enough The Chancellor must embrace a Churchillian principle

19 Nov 2019

Let the state demolish bad new buildings

18 Nov 2019

Deadlocked Democracy The rise of populist, separatist and environmentalist parties is making it harder to form coalition governments

14 Nov 2019

David Cameron’s fake news about fake news The ex-Prime Minister doesn't know what he's talking about

13 Nov 2019

Britain should lead the way on farm subsidies Across the EU, 80% of subsidies go to the biggest 20% of claimants

12 Nov 2019

10 things I hate about Germany

07 Nov 2019

Why Miranda is more daring than Fleabag

04 Nov 2019

The real horror of Halloween Watch out for cars more than ghosts this halloween eve

31 Oct 2019

The real reason why people hate vegans The hostility that vegans get from their ‘own side’ is especially intriguing...

30 Oct 2019

Trouble in Umbria as Salvini soars Italian regional elections aren't exactly headline news in the UK, but what happened in Umbria this weekend matters.

28 Oct 2019

How the world forgot the financial crash

28 Oct 2019

WeWork tells us what works in the wider economy Could a renewed loss of confidence in the tech sector tip the entire economy into recession?...

25 Oct 2019

Liberals against democracy? Don't miss this magnificently provocative essay from John Gray in the New Statesman..

24 Oct 2019

There’s no such thing as Left versus Right

24 Oct 2019

John Simpson’s two thirds idea is half-baked The veteran BBC broadcaster suggests a new supermajority rule - but has he thought it through?

22 Oct 2019

Will the EU shut down its tax havens? New analysis confirms Ireland is the EU's home grown tax haven

21 Oct 2019

Daylight robbery: how lack of sunlight is keeping us awake Lack of sleep is hitting Britain's economic productivity...

18 Oct 2019

There is nothing wrong with neoliberalism… as a word ‘Neoliberalism’ is not the loveliest of words, but it is a useful one...

16 Oct 2019

Could free cash fix the economy?

16 Oct 2019

Late Capitalism? Don’t you believe it. In the 1930s, the capitalist system faced an existential threat from communism and fascism; but what does it have it worry about today?...

15 Oct 2019

Why would anyone buy a negative yield bond?

10 Oct 2019

Tax evading billionaires will put Warren in the White House Well, it's finally happened – America now has a regressive tax system in which the 400 richest families pay a lower effective rate than the poorest 50% of Americans...

10 Oct 2019

What if Germany’s economy toppled?

09 Oct 2019

Are socialists liberal? A response to Maajid Nawaz I'd argue that most of the contemporary Left, including the self-declared socialist component, is liberal though-and-through...

08 Oct 2019

Why does everyone hate inheritance tax? The case for inheritance tax is a supremely rational one – but that's precisely the problem...

07 Oct 2019

How the West is winning Chinese talent

07 Oct 2019

Fake blood won’t do it: the climate change movement needs to lead by example A protest to spray the Treasury with fake blood left the organisers red faced...

04 Oct 2019

Why do some people find more purpose in life than others? A YouGov survey commissioned for a report by the libertarian Cato Institute reveals significant existential inequalities between Americans...

03 Oct 2019

How much trouble is the economy in?

02 Oct 2019

One step forward, one step back in the battle for beauty It looks like the Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission is being listened to...

01 Oct 2019

Five ways the Tories could lose the election

30 Sep 2019

Imagine David Cameron had won his referendum

27 Sep 2019

Greta Thunberg, post-liberal prophet Amid the continuing tumult of Greta-mania and Greta-phobia, Jeff MacMahon of Forbes has noticed something in Thunberg's words that everyone else has missed...

26 Sep 2019

Meanwhile in America… President Yang? We should be paying more attention to the race for the Democratic nomination...

25 Sep 2019

The letter of the law versus the spirit of the constitution I told you so. The other week on UnHerd, I argued that it is time that the UK had a proper written constitution...

24 Sep 2019

Singapore-on-Thames? Yes please!

23 Sep 2019

Don’t miss today’s good news on climate Amid the Climate Strike protests, real progress is being made towards a low carbon economy – not least in Britain, where we got some more good news today...

20 Sep 2019

How Jeremy Corbyn could get the top job

20 Sep 2019

Report: Anarchists vs centrists is the new Left vs Right

18 Sep 2019

Meanwhile in Guy Verhofstadt’s back yard…

18 Sep 2019

We aren’t getting the best from our brains

17 Sep 2019

What’s wrong with the weekend news?

16 Sep 2019

Calm down, ‘deepfake’ news is not here yet

13 Sep 2019

Don’t let the liberals write our constitution

13 Sep 2019

‘Left-behind’ communities are closer than you think

12 Sep 2019

Why is the world going blind?

11 Sep 2019

The nation’s twitchers are rising up

10 Sep 2019

The schools that Britain forgot

09 Sep 2019

Why we need to remember Martin Weitzman

06 Sep 2019

Toryism is not conservatism

05 Sep 2019

Are breakaway parties always doomed?

05 Sep 2019

Is this a long-term age of discord?

04 Sep 2019

East Germany is fertile hunting ground for populists

02 Sep 2019

There’s no such thing as factory farming

30 Aug 2019

The global economy has gone mad

27 Aug 2019

What’s making Millennials so lonely?

23 Aug 2019

Boris’s stimulus stunt

21 Aug 2019

How Cornwall took back control

20 Aug 2019

Big Bezos is watching you

19 Aug 2019

Why cities are no place for kids

16 Aug 2019

The battle for the Tory Party’s soul

14 Aug 2019

The latest reason to scrap HS2

12 Aug 2019

Boris should make Britain beautiful again

07 Aug 2019

How Spain could rule the Eurozone

05 Aug 2019

The 10 brains behind Dominic Cummings

02 Aug 2019

How WEIRD are you?

31 Jul 2019

Are we due another recession?

29 Jul 2019

A ray of hope for a burning world

25 Jul 2019

Could Boris solve the housing crisis?

24 Jul 2019

Do leaders bluff their way to the top?

22 Jul 2019

Elon Musk’s extra-terrestrial threat

17 Jul 2019

Could economics explain rising birth rates?

17 Jul 2019

Why did we forget the father of science?

16 Jul 2019

How sexist is your air conditioning?

15 Jul 2019

China’s great global game

11 Jul 2019

The truth behind Trump’s victory

09 Jul 2019

The problem with political journalism

08 Jul 2019

How politics became polarised

03 Jul 2019

Sod the singularity

02 Jul 2019

The liberals are falling into Putin’s trap

28 Jun 2019

The inevitability of debt

28 Jun 2019

Why is Zuckerberg inventing a currency?

26 Jun 2019

Is too much money a bad thing?

24 Jun 2019

Are we really reaching full employment?

21 Jun 2019

Can we do without religion?

20 Jun 2019

Is the Conservative Party brain dead?

19 Jun 2019

In praise of media scare stories

18 Jun 2019

Are you ready for ‘fully automated luxury communism’?

12 Jun 2019

How AI will terminate us

11 Jun 2019

Why the elites dumped on San Francisco

10 Jun 2019

How Europe smothered the radical Left

07 Jun 2019

How long will the Brexit Party last?

06 Jun 2019

Is this the world’s worst housing project?

05 Jun 2019