Peter Saunders personal website

In the UK, Peter has published articles in The Independent, The Daily Express, and The Financial Times. His work has been featured in The Independent, The Economist, The Sunday Times, The Times, The Independent on Sunday, The Daily Telegraph, The Observer, The Times Higher Education Supplement, New Statesman, The Guardian and (most recently) the Daily Mail and the Daily Express.

In Australia and New Zealand, he has published approaching 100 opinion pieces in The Australian Financial Review, The Australian, Melbourne Age, Newcastle Herald, Canberra Times, New Zealand Herald, Adelaide Advertiser, Sydney Morning Herald, and the Brisbane Courier Mail (see examples below). He has also written for the Asian Wall Street Journal.


Read samples:

Why the welfare state keeps growing, from Sydney Morning Herald, 21 February 2009 click here
The lessons of the Karen Matthews affair, from The Australian 13 December 2008 click here
First impressions on arriving back in Britain, from The Weekend Australian, 16 August 2008 click here
Democracy, EU style, from The Australian, 16 July 2008 click here
Learning lessons from the Cinderella Man, from The Age, 2 November, 2005 click here
Tofu terror, from The Sydney Morning Herald, 17 January 2007 click here
In praise of elitism, from The Australian 13 August 2007 click here
Why anti-social behaviour matters, from The Sydney Morning Herald , 12 January, 2008 click here
The government knows best, from The Australian, April 10, 2007
("a brilliant piece of writing" - Alan Jones, Channel 9 Today programme) click here

...and from way back (but still as relevant today as when they were written):

Why intelligence must vary with class but not with race, from The Independent, 25 October 1994 click here
Why university academics are not underpaid, from The Independent, 11 October 1990 click here