Blog/Substack

I maintain a blog on substack, The Persistent Ruminator, on which I regularly write on family issues and occasionally on wider political, economic and philosophical issues: https://persistentruminator.substack.com/. I have published over 130 articles on my substack.

Writings

In the Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/29/cause-of-falling-fertility-rates-isnt-biological, April 2026, https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jan/01/the-reason-for-italys-demographic-winter, January 2026

In IFS, https://ifstudies.org/blog/when-iceland-gave-citizens-a-tax-free-year-they-had-more-babies, March 2026

In Centre Write, https://centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/fear-of-having-children-is-irrational/, March 2026, https://centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/money-can-address-the-low-fertility-trap-actually/, November 2025, https://centrewrite.brightblue.org.uk/peter-brookes-parental-tax-relief-could-fix-the-uk-low-fertility-rate/, April 2024

In Bedrock Magazine, https://bedrockmagazine.substack.com/p/taking-the-wrong-lessons-from-economics, November 2025

In Mace Magazine, https://macemagazine.com/history-risks-repeating-itself-in-ireland/, July 2025

In Works In Progress, https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/why-child-benefits-should-be-front, June 2025

In The Critic, https://thecritic.co.uk/having-kids-wont-hurt-the-planet/, April 2025

In The Cherwell, https://cherwell.org/2025/01/28/oxford-tutoring-force-for-good/, January 2025

In Oxford Blue, https://theoxfordblue.co.uk/polls-fail-poor-oversampling/, January 2021, https://theoxfordblue.co.uk/how-the-free-school-meals-scandal-is-part-of-a-wider-game/, November 2020

In the media

Quoted in Washington Examiner, National Review, Deseret News and Washington Stand, Washington Examiner, July 2026