It's an interesting little read but it just ticks all the Remain boxes and reinforces it's own in-built prejudices without offering any real insight.
Quotes like "
It’s not clear to me whether the UK ever read large chunks of the Commission draft" or "
There was very little lobbying by business about Brexit " do little to add credibility to the blog and the links to Twitter and the press are just the same old people moaning about the same old stuff. The Guardian, The Independent, Joe Mayes and Peter Foster are hardly the sources you would turn to for rational explanations about Brexit.
Foster used to be the Brussels correspondent for the Telegraph until he jumped ship and now works at (surprise, surprise) the FT. Reading his stuff was painful at times. To get an idea of where Mayes sympathies lie just take a glance at his recent articles at Bloomberg...
https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/ASWZ4qa9Lv4/joe-mayes
Brexit is going well but it's not been perfect and it won't be perfect just like being in the EU was never perfect. But I think there are a lot better informed people out there than Manhattan-based, NYT contributors.