Peter Franklin

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

@peterfranklin_

How to beat the politics of punishment

03 Jun 2019

York was destined to be capital

31 May 2019

What’s GoT got to do with office politics?

30 May 2019

Why Britain needs a De Gaulle

29 May 2019

Will the EU become an empire?

28 May 2019

Ten visitors more terrible than Trump

20 May 2019

What Blairism shares with populism

17 May 2019

Will the internet reawaken the dead?

15 May 2019

Which experts should we trust?

14 May 2019

You can keep your free money

13 May 2019

Could Joe Biden blow our minds?

10 May 2019

Could we drag drivers from their cars?

09 May 2019

In search of the little green men

08 May 2019

Let’s close down open-plan offices

07 May 2019

Could a rentquake topple Trump?

02 May 2019

Does Britain need a post-liberal party?

01 May 2019

The most important policy we don’t talk about

30 Apr 2019

How much do globalists really value diversity?

29 Apr 2019

Why the Matrix needs humans

26 Apr 2019

The hideous spread of ‘spreadsheet architecture’

24 Apr 2019

Who will ride the Green wave?

23 Apr 2019

Ten precedents for a compromise Brexit

17 Apr 2019

Crony capitalism is empowering the Left

16 Apr 2019

Why aren’t the Tories talking about economics?

15 Apr 2019

Tolkien’s guide to contemporary politics

11 Apr 2019

Does a big society need a Big God?

10 Apr 2019

To revive our cities we must set them free

09 Apr 2019

What cost convenience?

08 Apr 2019

What’s really to blame for the opioid crisis?

04 Apr 2019

Call yourself post-liberal?

03 Apr 2019

Robots will kill us with kindness

02 Apr 2019

How university re-establishes hierarchy

01 Apr 2019

Why low interest rates poison the economy

28 Mar 2019

Why middle England became middle class

27 Mar 2019

The disruptive promise of internet voting

26 Mar 2019

What’s the point of central government?

25 Mar 2019

Does Germany have an answer to the housing crisis?

19 Mar 2019

Who benefits from the Uberised economy?

18 Mar 2019

Why is French democracy so prone to violence?

15 Mar 2019

Britain’s Brexit paralysis

14 Mar 2019

The fall of social democracy

13 Mar 2019

The political significance of beards

12 Mar 2019

Down and out in the Golden State

11 Mar 2019

Can you afford parenthood?

08 Mar 2019

Who’s most intolerant in America?

07 Mar 2019

It’s time to overhaul economic policy

06 Mar 2019

Just how mad is the Green New Deal?

05 Mar 2019

The fall of Five Star is bad news for democracy

04 Mar 2019

Should we pity the rich?

01 Mar 2019

The monopolists’ manifesto

28 Feb 2019

What will survive global warming?

27 Feb 2019

Will Spain’s working poor take revenge?

26 Feb 2019

Is there anything Amazon can’t dominate?

25 Feb 2019

How to make money from a housing crisis

22 Feb 2019

Are we blinded by mathematics?

21 Feb 2019

The dead centre of political punditry

20 Feb 2019

What has ‘flyover country’ got to complain about?

19 Feb 2019

The truth about inflation

18 Feb 2019

Will the NHS hold our DNA hostage?

15 Feb 2019

Why high-rise farms could save the world

14 Feb 2019

Do you know where money really comes from?

13 Feb 2019

You are the next tech revolution

12 Feb 2019

How to solve the housing crisis

11 Feb 2019

Wake up people! The sheep were right

08 Feb 2019

The consequences of cosy AI collusion

07 Feb 2019

The irrelevant debate over the top rate of tax

06 Feb 2019

Is it all over for the big tech companies?

05 Feb 2019

What cost your free lunch?

04 Feb 2019

Not a population bomb, more a damp squib

01 Feb 2019

The bitter truth about Millennial burnout

31 Jan 2019

What makes languages legitimate?

30 Jan 2019

Could your neighbour be spying on you?

29 Jan 2019

Capitalism: where did it all go wrong?

28 Jan 2019

Who would you trust with your bio-data?

25 Jan 2019

Why intensive parenting causes inequality

24 Jan 2019

This demographic catastrophe will hit us all

23 Jan 2019

Why ‘peak death’ won’t solve the housing crisis

22 Jan 2019

No, computers haven’t learned how to cheat

21 Jan 2019

A path towards Tory detoxification

18 Jan 2019

Let’s replace the Lords with a House of Lobbyists

17 Jan 2019

What’s bugging the Millennials?

15 Jan 2019

A Christian society should be post-liberal not anti-liberal

14 Jan 2019

How to stop the mis-selling of education

11 Jan 2019

Is Spain’s day in the sun dawning?

10 Jan 2019

The world’s most successful* people get enough sleep

09 Jan 2019

How China ditched the banks

08 Jan 2019

So you want to write an opinion piece

07 Jan 2019

Why I’m a man for more seasons

03 Jan 2019

The Year UnPacked

02 Jan 2019

The Year UnPacked: 10 to 1

28 Dec 2018

The Year UnPacked: 20 to 11

27 Dec 2018

Ten vested interests the Tories failed to tackle

27 Dec 2018

The Year UnPacked: 30 to 21

26 Dec 2018

The Year UnPacked: 40 to 31

25 Dec 2018

The Year UnPacked: 50 to 41

24 Dec 2018

Why Antifragile is the perfect read for today’s turmoil

20 Dec 2018

The jaw-dropping scale of China’s global ambition

19 Dec 2018

When eggheads are bigger idiots than meatheads

18 Dec 2018

The most dangerous thing about meritocracy

17 Dec 2018