///. . . BY: ELIANA JONSHON 25 JUN 2026 ----------------------- https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!heOD!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3d3a5e2a-82a6-46a3-8a6e-f3d36975ab0b_1386x678.png A screenshot from a Bloomberg video on “What 10 Years of Brexit Has Cost the UK” offers a clue to why the media is so keen to depict it as a failure. Great Britain voted to leave the European Union 10 years ago, and the mainstream media in the U.S. is using the occasion to paint Brexit as a failure that’s hampered the U.K.’s economy. “The analysis is flawed,” our Ira Stoll writes. For starters, Britain’s exit from the EU took effect four years after the referendum, in 2020, and “using the referendum date rather than the actual exit date as the sole basis for analysis makes little sense.” Two lengthy pieces in the New York Times, meanwhile, cite a Stanford paper that uses the economies of the United States and Estonia to model where the U.K.’s economy would be without Brexit. “I would love Britain to have the low energy prices, entrepreneurial culture and lower simpler taxes of these economies, but we don’t and this was not going to change had we remained in the EU,” responds former “Vote Leave” campaign CEO Matthew Elliott. “So why is the U.S. press so eager to paint Brexit as a failure?” Stoll asks. “The Times opinion piece, roughly 2,300 words long, mentions Trump seven times: ‘A few months after the Brexit referendum, when the United States selected Mr. Trump as its president and read the rites over Pax Americana, America chose exceptionalism, too.’ It concludes, ‘“Taking back control” left Britain alone. “Making America great again” may yet come to mean the same to America.’ If Brexit failed, maybe Trump will fail, too. “That possibility animates Times readers, as can be seen from the reader comments. ‘The United Kingdom and America may be two countries divided by a common language, but they are now united by an inexplicable taste for political insanity,’ reads a comment upvoted by 1,500 Times readers. It actually is explicable as a reaction to elite smugness of the variety on display in the Times reader comments.” READ MORE: The Brexit Blame Game Is Really Aimed at Trump Elsewhere: House Democrats are reportedly panicking after two of their colleagues fell to Zohran Mamdani-backed socialist challengers in New York City, Axios reported. One “centrist” lawmaker said the results were an “earthquake” and a “huge defeat” for Democratic leadership. “Squad” ally Pramila Jayapal was more cheery: “The progressive energy is clearly very high,” she said. None of that is good news for House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries, who may have lost a primary in his own New York City district had Mamdani endorsed a candidate against him. Attendees at the election night party for one of the Mamdani-backed candidates, Claire Valdez, booed Jeffries and chanted, “you’re next.” House Democrats held a caucus meeting Wednesday morning but did not discuss the New York primary results, according to Axios’s Andrew Solender. Back in December, we reported on the radical Louis Farrakhan-praising pastor Frederick Haynes, who counts Jasmine Crockett as a member of his congregation and had recently launched a campaign to replace her in Congress. Now Haynes is the Democratic nominee, and he used his Sunday sermon to rally behind convicted killer Karmelo Anthony, who fatally stabbed a 17-year-old athlete at a Dallas-area track meet. Haynes suggested that the “all non-black jury” did not give Anthony a fair trial and lamented, “This boy, our friend, can’t even defend himself.” Several witnesses testified that Anthony provoked and insulted several students at the track meet before stabbing the victim, Austin Metcalf, in the heart. Check out our full Thursday lineup below. Left-Wing Strategists and Hollywood Elites, Including Kamala Harris’s ‘Celebrity Whisperer,’ Quietly Launch New Firm ‘All Cats Are Gay’: Meet the Radical Activists Producing Government-Approved Resources for ‘LGBTQIA2S+ Young People’ in Oregon The Brexit Blame Game Is Really Aimed at Trump ‘Our Friend Can’t Even Defend Himself’: Jasmine Crockett’s Pastor, Tapped To Replace Her in Congress, Defends Killer Karmelo Anthony as a ‘Little Boy’ ‘I Am Appalled at What Happened in This Coffee Shop’: Jewish New Yorkers Protest Outside Anti-Israel Coffee Joint That Banned Rep Dan Goldman China Is Paying Missouri State U Millions of Dollars a Year To Send Its Best and Brightest to Business School, a Training Ground for Communist Party Elites: Report Thanks for reading the Washington Free Beacon! Subscribe for free to receive new posts.