Peter Saunders personal website

In the UK, Peter has published articles in The Independent, The Daily Express, The Financial Times and the Sunday Times. 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. He has also written for the Asian Wall Street Journal. A selection of his press articles can be seen below.

Peter's work has been featured over the years in many newspapers including 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, the Daily Mail and the Daily Express. Most recently, his report on reforming family payments was covered in the Daily Mail and the Daily Express, his work on social mobility was covered in the Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph, and his critique of government child poverty targets was the focus of Dominic Lawson's column in The Sunday Times.


A selection of press articles written by Peter Saunders:

Busting the myth of our rigid classes, from The Sunday Times 6 June 2010 click here
A nation in denial and deeper in debt, from The Australian, 10 May 2010 click here
Britain needs new Thatcher but everyone in denial, from The Australian, 29 April 2010 click here
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
The government knows best, from The Australian, April 10, 2007 ("a brilliant piece of writing" - Alan Jones, Channel 9 Today programme) click here
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