Peter Saunders personal website

In the UK, Peter has published articles in The Independent, The Daily Express, The Financial Times, the Sunday Times, The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph. 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.

His work has often been reported in the press. His report on reforming family payments was covered in the Daily Mail and the Daily Express, his work on social mobility has been covered in the Daily Mail , Daily Telegraph, Sunday Express and Financial Times, his critique of government child poverty targets was the focus of Dominic Lawson's column in The Sunday Times, his critique of 'The Spirit Level' (an influential book in leftwing circles) attracted repeated comment in The Guardian and was evaluated by The Economist., and his call for a strengthening of welfare conditionality has been commended by The Daily Express


A selection of press articles from the last 20+ years:

It's a mistake to force universities to admit poorer students on lower grades, from The Daily Telegraph 9 February 2011 click here
Making work pay is important, but it's not enough, from The Australian 8 October 2010 click here
The Spirit Level is bad social science, from The Guardian 26 August 2010 click here
Busting the myth of our rigid classes, from The Sunday Times 6 June 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
Democracy, EU style, from The Australian, 16 July 2008 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
Learning lessons from the Cinderella Man, from The Melbourne Age, 2 November, 2005 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