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  Brexit Was Only as Good as Its Plan… Oh, Wait There never was one. Ten years later, what still Remains is the muddle and anger. June 19, 2026 at 11:00 PM GMT+10 Save Translate To get John Authers’ newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here . “We didn’t have a plan for what to do next,” said Boris Johnson, “because we didn’t think it was our job to have a plan.” That note of devastating honesty from the leader of the campaign for Britain to leave the European Union concluded Brexit: A Very British Civil War , a BBC documentary broadcast this week to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Brexit referendum. It’s already featuring in pro-EU commercials, and it vitiates the intense debate over whether the UK could ever benefit from the decision it made to go. As John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge laid out last month, the momentous decision entered into so casually has proved to be quite a watershed moment in global history. Its significance spreads far beyond ar...
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  Read in browser Welcome to Going Private , I’m Sinead Cruise and this is Bloomberg’s twice-weekly newsletter about private markets and the forces moving capital away from the public eye. Today, we look at the debt drama bringing excitement to a bold turnaround specialist, the US real estate investment opportunity that survived a presidential executive order and we hear from a New York Knicks superfan still on Cloud Nine. But first we look at the nightmare scenario one of the world’s leading watchdogs wants private markets to confront. If you’re not already on our list, sign up here . Have feedback? Email us at goingprivate@bloomberg.net Severe But Plausible The Bank of England today revealed the scenario it wants the industry to model itself against in its groundbreaking private markets stress test — and it doesn’t make for pretty reading. The watchdog kicked off its year-long deep-dive into the $16 trillion private markets ecosystem on the back of fears about the sector’s ab...
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  Skip to content Log In Articles Share Expert Take Europe The G7’s Alignment on Iran and Ukraine Is Deeply Fragile The G7 summit produced the transatlantic alignment—albeit a fragile one—that Europe had hoped for on Iran and Ukraine. But European leaders shouldn’t feel relieved. Now is the time to focus on building the strategic independence they will need if this consensus doesn’t hold. .S. President Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy during a working session at the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, on June 16, 2026.  Thibault Camus/Reuters By experts and staff Published June 17, 2026 11:38 a.m. Liana Fix CFR Expert Senior Fellow for Europe Liana Fix is a historian, political scientist, and leading authority on European security, transatlantic relations, Russia and Eastern Europe, and European–China policy. She is the author of the forthcoming book  Germany Rearmed: The Return of War and the End of Illusions. T...
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