While countries often criticize China’s increasingly aggressive actions towards Taiwan, none questions the Communist regime’s insistence that Taiwan is integral to China. But is it? Bill Hayton in Unherd revisits the essential premise of China’s claim on Taiwan. His examination of historical facts paints a unique and surprising portrait of an embattled island people.

Yay Brexit!
Brendan O’Neill in Spiked enthuses that Brexit is superior to just about anything else in the world. “There should be street parties” on the 10th anniversary of the popular vote to withdraw from the EU, he writes. “Let the bells peal for that momentous day when in our millions we said No to globalism.” The continuing surfeit of saboteurs and naysayers among Britain’s “idiot elites”, O’Neill snorts, are gripped by Brexit Derangement Syndrome.


